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Athena Internet’s Promo Code Sherlock contest is still in full swing, but now two out of the top three prizes have been awarded. Zach R. of Ann Arbor Michigan scored 1 year free website hosting with the promo code IMSORRYDAVE.

And it’s interesting that both the runners-up come from the two epicenters of College Football’s biggest rivalry, Ohio State vs. Michigan!

In other news, we’ve revealed all the 15% discount promo codes, so that folks know if they’ve got a code that isn’t listed, it’s of a higher value. Combined with our automatic 25-percent-off 6THBIRTHDAY code, that means without even looking for bigger codes, customers can save 40% right now on our hosting packages!

And of course, our Grand Prize Winner, who will receive 5 FULL YEARS of FREE PREMIUM WEBSITE HOSTING, is still yet-to-be-determined! So, if you’re holding out on winning free hosting, your time is running out!

Congratulations to Zach, and our thanks to one and all who have participated in the promotion.

It might not be Cincinnati Reds GM Walk Jocketty to whom the credit accrues for the coup of the offseason: the Reds’ signing of left-handed Cuban wunderkind Aroldis Chapman.

But, you’ve gotta hand it to Jocketty, nonetheless: all winter long, Reds fans –as well as the rest of the baseball world– had been quietly wondering about the complete, total, and utter absence of transaction activity on the Reds’ part.

And now we know why. So basically, that weird sense of calm Jocketty had been exuding now makes sense: why get hot-and-bothered about the free agent market –populated mainly by aging stars with outsized asking prices or by no-name journeymen– when you can sign a left-handed kid with a triple-digit fastball?

6 hours in, we have our first winner for Athena Internet’s Promo Code Sherlock promotion.

Congratulations to Kevin P. of Columbus, Ohio, tracked down JOSHUASGHOST and takes the 1st Runner Up, which is 2 years of our Premium Personal Website Hosting.

Congrats, Kevin!

For those keeping score, there’s still 2 grand prizes, as well as TONS of promotional codes good for discounts of 10-50%!

We’ve launched our first big promotional campaign for consumer-level website hosting in our company’s history today!

We’re calling it “Promo Code Sherlock“, and it works like this:

Throughout our site, we’ve hidden promotional codes worth between 10% and 50% off on our website hosting services. These codes vary considerably in how hard they are to find, and they expire after a set number of uses in each case.

In addition, we’ve hidden three special codes that unlock one, two, and FIVE years of free Premium Personal website hosting service, respectively. These codes will require some additional sleuthing to figure out, even after you’ve found them!

We hope that it ends up being a fun thing for everyone involved! Be sure to spread the word!

(And yes, I was painfully self-conscious at blowing my own trumpet so ostentatiously here!)

A little tip here: If you’re getting this message when trying to log into Plesk Billing via Plesk:

Warning: fopen(/var/log/sso/sso.log) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/local/sso/lib/Log.php on line 24 FATAL ERROR: Can not open log file ‘/var/log/sso/sso.log’ (CWD is /usr/local/sso)

This would seem to be being caused by changing the hostname, for which Plesk Billing generates an automatic self-signed SSL certificate for. Attempting to re-register the hostname using the /usr/local/psa/bin/sso utility is useless in this context, as it keeps beating up against the entrenched cert.

To remedy, simply:
1.) Back up your Plesk Billing database
2.) command: yum remove plesk-billing
3.) Re-add Plesk Billing via the Plesk Updater