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Apr 28, 2012
If you did not know yet cPanel 11.32 hit the RELEASE builds a little while ago and this week finally made it’s way to STABLE which is the most conservative version of cPanel. We run RELEASE but with every major … Continue reading ?
Apr 05, 2012
We’re happy to announce we officially support PHP 5.4 on all of our shared web hosting packages! You’ll be able to utilize it on your account by following these instructions in our knowledge base or contacting our support department. Here … Continue reading ?
Feb 29, 2012
Every 4 years, we’re lucky enough to be given an extra day in February. This is known as a leap year, or a bissextile year, or a intercalary year. Normally we treat this as just another day (like most people), … Continue reading ?
Feb 08, 2012
If you’ve logged into our client area in the past 48 hours, you may have noticed a slight change in our quick navigation (click for a picture), with the addition of a Google AdWords link. That link is good for an … Continue reading ?
Jan 24, 2012
Happy New Years! December was certainly a fitting way to cap off an adventurous 2011. Throughout the month we upgraded our VPS plans, had another massive sale, and bought some new toys, all the while finding time to celebrate the … Continue reading ?
Dec 26, 2011
It’s the holiday season, so we’re of course feeling generous. Then again who isn’t, with all the holiday cheer, festive music and decorations you can’t help but notice everywhere you go. Bringing that spirit to our hosting world, we’ve decided … Continue reading ?
Dec 25, 2011
The holidays are upon us and for people around the world that means family, friends, good food, and if you’re lucky a few gifts. Oh, and Boxing Day. While it’s a lesser known event compared to Black Friday, it’s still … Continue reading ?
Dec 20, 2011
Now that we’re into the final month of the year, it’s easy to look back and reflect on all the movement we’ve made as a company in the past 11 months. Focusing specifically on November though, we opened a new … Continue reading ?
Nov 29, 2011
So Halloween has come and gone, and with it the month of October. Now that the candy is gone we figure it’s a good time to recap on the month. We’ve also brought two new, international locations online in the … Continue reading ?
Nov 23, 2011
Time for our second annual Black Friday sale! This year we’ve got sales on both our shared and reseller hosting services. As always these promotions are valid on Black Friday only so 12:00am Friday November 25th CST (GMT-5) and will … Continue reading ?
Oct 16, 2011
Already into October — it’s going to be 2012 in another 2.5 months. That’s a strange thought, as I can remember writing the first blog post for 2011 as if it were last week. The year has really moved (they … Continue reading ?
Sep 30, 2011
We’re officially online in Singapore and accepting shared hosting orders! Our hardware was setup and online Wednesday afternoon , and shortly after our sysadmins went to work getting the server production ready. They worked their magic and I am beyond … Continue reading ?
Sep 22, 2011
Got your attention with that title I hope. We’re not opening quite yet overseas, but we’re close. How close? Based on word from our provider and information on their website, pre-orders begin on September 23rd and servers go live on … Continue reading ?
Sep 19, 2011
August was one of our busier months in recent memory. You’d have a hard time telling though, as just about all of our major improvements were done internally. Most of our updates and status reports are about features which immediately … Continue reading ?
Sep 15, 2011
As of today, we’re going to be giving everyone on our shared plans (current and future) a bit of a free upgrade. We did this a few months ago with our reseller plans and it has worked out wonderfully so … Continue reading ?
Sep 04, 2011
We’ve now been with SoftLayer over five years and I figured it was time to talk about that as we received some goodies from them recently. When we started using SoftLayer they had just their Dallas location and a single … Continue reading ?
Aug 16, 2011
July, July! What a great month it was, even though it seemed to be gone in an instant. We’ve added some new services, there’s global network upgrades pending, and we’ve even optimized some existing services. It’s hard to say just … Continue reading ?
Jul 18, 2011
It has been quite a while since I’ve talked about the VPS panel but don’t worry we have not forgot about it. We have a lot of projects going on so some take a higher priority than others. Those projects … Continue reading ?
Jul 15, 2011
It’s that time again for a major update to cPanel which in this case is 11.30. It just reached their stable version which is the most conservative build they offer. Their stable build is also what we run when a … Continue reading ?
Jul 14, 2011
We’re thrilled to announce that Hawk Host is now officially a CloudFlare hosting partner. As of this post that makes us one of 25 official hosting providers worldwide. While you’ve always been able to utilize their services with our hosting plans, … Continue reading ?
Jul 08, 2011
June was an interesting month for us. The month started off with a meeting at our operations office here in Buffalo, NY with a number of our staff discussing the company, where we’re at and where we’re headed. The remaining … Continue reading ?
Jun 07, 2011
Despite some recent blog posts, we did do a lot more in the month of May besides looking for Easter eggs in the software we use. Now don’t get me wrong, we do love to have some fun and, you … Continue reading ?
Jun 04, 2011
We recently started using HipChat internally to help improve communication within the company and to essentially have an intranet type of chat. After playing around with CampFire and toying around with our own XMPP server one of our colleagues mentioned … Continue reading ?
May 14, 2011
We’re about a week behind posting this months report (as surely you avid readers have noticed). This isn’t because we don’t just love writing blog posts and interfacing with our audience, because we do enjoy it. The problem is simply … Continue reading ?
Apr 26, 2011
Announced earlier today in this tweet, our infrastructure provider Softlayer has opened their San Jose facility. This is a long awaited announcement for us, as we’ve been extremely eager to open up our now fourth location. From information posted on … Continue reading ?
Apr 19, 2011
Last week, it was announced that CentOS 5.6 was released. Since some of our internal, development, and utility machines use CentOS this is obviously a relevant upgrade to us. We’ve always followed news releases for all software very closely, and … Continue reading ?
Apr 11, 2011
This month, we’re going to do things a little bit differently with the monthly recap. We’ll still cover all the things we did the past 31 days. However, we’re also going to take the chance to introduce our new reseller … Continue reading ?
Apr 06, 2011
After what seems like years and years of discussion on the topic, we’ve finally completed our SSL lineup! From this day forward you can now purchase multiple tiers of SSL certificates directly from Hawk Host. These certificates, ranging from the … Continue reading ?
Mar 10, 2011
Well folks, the time has arrived. We’ve been talking about it for what seems like forever, but as of today (March 10th), we are now officially accepting payments for all of our hosting services using Alipay. For those of you … Continue reading ?
Mar 05, 2011
Month two of 2011 is officially behind us. As such, it’s once again time to let you all know what changed, what we improved, and what to look forward to. Despite it being a short month, it was just as … Continue reading ?
Feb 28, 2011
Anyone who keeps up with us socially (here at the blog, on Twitter, Facebook, or our forums) knows that we’ve moved all of our shared and reseller hosting servers over to Cloud Linux. We use those words a lot too, … Continue reading ?
Feb 18, 2011
Month one of 2011 is behind us. I wouldn’t believe it if someone didn’t show me a calendar to prove it though. With how busy we’ve been all sense of time is warped, and I couldn’t tell you if it’s … Continue reading ?
Jan 17, 2011
Another year is behind us we’re already into January 2011 I cannot believe it. The time sure does fly around here as we are always working on something. Even when things seem silent as far as new features we’re constantly … Continue reading ?
Dec 29, 2010
Since we did this for our Black Friday sale, we figured why not throw some numbers at our avid readers about the results of our Boxing Day sale. The sale was a resounding success and we saw a lot more … Continue reading ?
Dec 24, 2010
The holidays are upon us and for people around the world that means family, friends, good food, and if you’re lucky a few gifts. Oh, and Boxing Day. While it’s a lesser known event compared to Black Friday (which was … Continue reading ?
Dec 24, 2010
The holidays are upon us and for people around the world that means family, friends, good food, and if you’re lucky a few gifts. Oh, and Boxing Day. While it’s a lesser known event compared to Black Friday (which was … Continue reading ?
Dec 23, 2010
There was a big Softaculous update released today which brings their total available scripts to 175! They are closing in on the 200 mark quickly and blowing all the other auto installers out of the water in terms of total … Continue reading ?
Dec 23, 2010
There was a big Softaculous update released today which brings their total available scripts to 175! They are closing in on the 200 mark quickly and blowing all the other auto installers out of the water in terms of total … Continue reading ?
Dec 17, 2010
As you’re probably already aware we ran a promotion on Black Friday. The response was more than we expected so we thought it may be interesting to see exactly what sort of volume we did that Friday. These statistics will be … Continue reading ?
Dec 17, 2010
As you’re probably already aware we ran a promotion on Black Friday. The response was more than we expected so we thought it may be interesting to see exactly what sort of volume we did that Friday. These statistics will be … Continue reading ?
Dec 07, 2010
There was a time when we rarely saw problems with WordPress installations causing performance issues. That was years ago though, and now things sure have changed. Any issues were mostly a mix of forums with weird modifications, extremely high traffic … Continue reading ?
Dec 07, 2010
There was a time when we rarely saw problems with WordPress installations causing performance issues. That was years ago though, and now things sure have changed. Any issues were mostly a mix of forums with weird modifications, extremely high traffic … Continue reading ?
Dec 06, 2010
It’s that time already another month is behind us. November seemed to fly by with how busy we were at Hawk Host. We were doing all kinds of things keeping us busy it was not just servers but various other … Continue reading ?
Dec 06, 2010
It’s that time already another month is behind us. November seemed to fly by with how busy we were at Hawk Host. We were doing all kinds of things keeping us busy it was not just servers but various other … Continue reading ?
Nov 25, 2010
As some of you may know, its Black Friday tomorrow November 26th, which typically means lots of crazy deals. Web hosting should be no different based on all kinds of deals being posted for web hosting we were not going … Continue reading ?
Nov 25, 2010
As some of you may know, its Black Friday tomorrow November 26th, which typically means lots of crazy deals. Web hosting should be no different based on all kinds of deals being posted for web hosting we were not going … Continue reading ?
Nov 09, 2010
October is already behind us which I just cannot believe. The time just flies by for us it seems like I’m saying to myself wow it’s a new month and then the next thing I know the month is over. … Continue reading ?
Nov 09, 2010
October is already behind us which I just cannot believe. The time just flies by for us it seems like I’m saying to myself wow it’s a new month and then the next thing I know the month is over. … Continue reading ?
Oct 14, 2010
One problem that never seems to go away is poorly constructed MySQL queries. Due to the nature of shared web hosting the workload is extremely varied. It does not just vary server to server, but on the same server within … Continue reading ?
Oct 14, 2010
One problem that never seems to go away is poorly constructed MySQL queries. Due to the nature of shared web hosting the workload is extremely varied. It does not just vary server to server, but on the same server within … Continue reading ?
Sep 24, 2010
PHP 5.3 has been out since June 29th 2009 and while buggy at the time has started to mature to be a much more stable PHP version. As a result users have been asking us when are we going to … Continue reading ?
Sep 24, 2010
PHP 5.3 has been out since June 29th 2009 and while buggy at the time has started to mature to be a much more stable PHP version. As a result users have been asking us when are we going to … Continue reading ?
Sep 16, 2010
I cannot believe it but it’s been another fiscal year for Hawk Host Inc. already. Our Fiscal year end always falls on August 31st and that has already passed. It’s been an exciting year for us with lots going on … Continue reading ?
Aug 23, 2010
After several instances where my old phone had proven inadequate for my job I finally decided to get a smartphone. I wasn’t sure what to go with so after careful deliberation I opted for the new Droid 2. Coming from … Continue reading ?
Aug 08, 2010
I cannot believe that it’s already August it felt like just yesterday I was talking about how 2010 was finally here. It’s about a good time to post about all the interesting things that have happened in July and what … Continue reading ?
Jul 02, 2010
In part 1 I went over the basics of tmux and how to utilize its basic features. In this portion I’m going to dive a bit more into customizing tmux to make it easier and prettier to work with. I’ll … Continue reading ?