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221 blog posts:
Oct 03, 2019
Our team has been busy deploying our cloud offering and thus far we’ve deployed them in Dallas, New York and Singapore. Each time we’ve announced the launch of a new cloud location we’ve said it’s fast, reliable but have not … Continue reading ?
Sep 26, 2019
Autumn is officially here, marking the end of summer 2019. Even if those sunny skies have come and gone we can still celebrate one last time with a surprise flash sale. This is our biggest sale of the year, offering … Continue reading ?
Aug 29, 2019
We’re happy to announce all our shared hosting, cloud hosting, reseller hosting and semi dedicated hosting accounts now support QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). We’ve supported SPDY and HTTP/2 for quite some time due to our use of Litespeed. Litespeed … Continue reading ?
Jul 05, 2019
We have been a long time cPanel supporter and partner and we prided ourselves on offering cPanel to our customer base. On June 27th along with all other cPanel partners we received notice by email of a drastic change on … Continue reading ?
Jun 06, 2019
cPanel 80 was pushed to the RELEASE branch on May 28th, 2019 and since then our team have been hard at work doing our own testing to confirm cPanel 80 is ready for Hawk Host customers. We’re happy to say … Continue reading ?
May 22, 2019
Summer may be fast approaching but we’ve still got time for a Spring sale! While our local weather hasn’t felt very much like Spring we’re still going to celebrate in spirit and offer up to 60% off new hosting orders … Continue reading ?
Jan 14, 2019
At Hawk Host we always value security and compatibility and with that for the past several years PHP 5.6 has been the default PHP version chosen for new accounts. PHP 5.6 recently reached end of life status ( http://php.net/eol.php ) … Continue reading ?
Jan 04, 2019
It’s our pleasure to announce that for the third consecutive year we’ll be an official sponsor of Let’s Encrypt! As our customers continue to enjoy the benefits of free SSL certificates we feel it’s important to give back to the … Continue reading ?
Dec 26, 2018
Happy holidays everyone! While you’re celebrating and spending time with loved ones we’re getting ready to offer one last holiday surprise, a sale! This will be our last big sale of the year and you can save up?to?70% on your … Continue reading ?
Dec 20, 2018
We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 7.3 on all our shared, reseller and semi-dedicated and cloud web hosting services. PHP 7.3 is the third point release in the 7.x series and it comes with many outstanding improvements and new features. Flexible … Continue reading ?
Dec 13, 2018
We’ve had a busy year here at Hawk Host, but our biggest projects have been launching our cloud hosting in both New York City and Singapore. One of our goals was to expand the cloud to more locations and we’re … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2018
Black Friday may be finished, but we’re not done offering great discounts! Our sales are continuing through Cyber Monday and we’re still offering our huge 70% discounts on new orders! This may be your last chance to take advantage of … Continue reading ?
Nov 22, 2018
Ready, set, go! Our 2018 Black Friday sale is live! This is your chance to sign up for any new hosting plan with us and receive up to a 70% discount. We’ve got discounts for our shared hosting, cloud web … Continue reading ?
Nov 16, 2018
It’s November, and you know what that means…Black Friday sales! With what has become a yearly tradition for us (and most companies around the globe) we’re extremely excited to once again offer some huge Black Friday discounts on our awesome … Continue reading ?
Oct 30, 2018
One of the more common requests we receive from customers, especially WordPress users, is how do they create a staging environment for their site. A proper staging environment has a number of uses but none more important than safely working … Continue reading ?
Oct 11, 2018
A few months back we launched our cloud hosting services in our New York City datacenter. That launch was our most successful new product to date, but we kept seeing one question come up: when will you have the cloud … Continue reading ?
Sep 14, 2018
Last year we introduced the ability to quickly and easily deploy both Ruby and Python Applications. We have since seen numerous requests for the ability to deploy Node.js applications the same way. We’re happy to announce that the ability to … Continue reading ?
Aug 28, 2018
We’ve got a new feature for all you Apple users out there! Starting today we’ve introduced support for Apple Pay! Apple Pay is easy to use, it’s secure, and it’s integrated right into your devices for one-click payments! Apple Pay … Continue reading ?
Jul 13, 2018
We recently upgraded all our web hosting servers to cPanel 72 which has brought many improvements and new features. One of the more exciting and much requested features is Git support. Git is a free and open source distributed version … Continue reading ?
Jun 20, 2018
Starting in July 2018, Chrome is going to start marking sites that do not use SSL/HTTPS as ‘insecure’, which is not exactly a good look from your visitors point of view. Is your site ready? If not, don’t worry, this … Continue reading ?
Mar 23, 2018
We’re moving into the cloud! Over the past year we’ve been hard at work on our most ambitious project yet, and as of today we’re officially launching the first ever cloud hosting product at Hawk Host! We’ve designed our cloud … Continue reading ?
Feb 07, 2018
We’re incredibly happy to announce that Hawk Host is going to be a silver level sponsor of the Let’s Encrypt project for another year! This will be our second consecutive year sponsoring Let’s Encrypt, a year which has shown SSL … Continue reading ?
Jan 05, 2018
A vulnerability has been announced that impacts nearly all modern CPU architectures which could allow an attacker to access raw data at the kernel level. We are taking the necessary steps to apply the available patches to our systems and … Continue reading ?
Jan 04, 2018
We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 7.2 on all our shared, reseller and semi-dedicated hosting services. PHP 7.2 is the second point release in the 7.x series and it comes with many outstanding improvements and new features. … Continue reading ?
Jan 02, 2018
Hello, 2018! As we ring in the new year we wanted to take a moment and look back at what happened here at Hawk Host in 2017. We announced new locations, introduced new features, and continued our never ending work … Continue reading ?
Dec 26, 2017
Happy Holidays to all our Hawk Host friends! We hope everyone is having a great holiday season celebrating with family and loved ones, and staying safe of course! We’re going to close out the year on a great note and … Continue reading ?
Dec 13, 2017
If you’re a shared, reseller, or semi-dedicated customer hosted in our Washington DC datacenter you’ve probably received an email about an upcoming migration to our new New York City facility. If you haven’t yet received the email yet don’t worry, … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2017
If you missed our Black Friday sales don’t worry, Cyber Monday is here for you! You can take advantage of the same discounts so it’s not too late to save up to 70% on your new hosting order! This years … Continue reading ?
Nov 23, 2017
Our 2017 Black Friday sale is officially live! Sign up now for any new shared, reseller, semi-dedicated, or VPS hosting plan and receive up to a 70% discount when using our Black Friday coupons listed below! This years Black Friday … Continue reading ?
Nov 17, 2017
Welcome back everyone! It’s what you’ve all been waiting for, the 2017 edition of Hawk Hosts Black Friday sales! Our Black Friday event is our biggest sale of the year and this years sale is no different, you can save … Continue reading ?
Nov 08, 2017
We introduced the ability to issue Let’s Encrypt certificates in February 2016 and since then this feature has been heavily used. The idea though that you’d have to individually issue each certificate was not particularly user friendly. Fortunately cPanel introduced … Continue reading ?
Oct 27, 2017
cPanel has supported MariaDB 10.1 for some time making it possible for us to upgrade. We have many VPS users utilizing MariaDB 10.1 due to how easy it is to switch to it. For us however we attempt to maintain … Continue reading ?
Oct 23, 2017
Surprise, it’s an Amsterdam flash sale! Sign up for any new shared or VPS hosting plan in our Amsterdam datacenter using coupon code “amsflash1017” and you’ll receive a 50% recurring lifetime discount. That discount is valid for the life of … Continue reading ?
Oct 20, 2017
On December 31st 2015 we introduced the ability to launch memcached servers from accounts. We had added this due to popular demand for the ability to easily start a memcached server. Since then we have seen inquiries to add the … Continue reading ?
Sep 13, 2017
People often question whether or not shared hosting can actually be secure. The concept of sharing a server with other users, while some of those users may be malicious, is a scary concept to people. Over the years we have … Continue reading ?
Sep 07, 2017
We’re happy to announce the latest version of cPanel version 66 is now available on all our shared, semi dedicated and reseller hosting services. As always each version of cPanel brings with it numerous fixes, performance improvements and features and … Continue reading ?
Sep 07, 2017
We’re happy to announce the latest version of cPanel version 66 is now available on all our shared, semi dedicated and reseller hosting services. As always each version of cPanel brings with it numerous fixes, performance improvements and features and … Continue reading ?
Aug 30, 2017
Perhaps the most dreaded discovery for any webmaster is finding out your website just isn’t as fast as it used to be, or in your eyes, as fast as it should be. All too often webmasters and site owners fall … Continue reading ?
Aug 30, 2017
Perhaps the most dreaded discovery for any webmaster is finding out your website just isn’t as fast as it used to be, or in your eyes, as fast as it should be. All too often webmasters and site owners fall … Continue reading ?
Aug 18, 2017
We’re happy to announce that we now support the ability to deploy applications using various versions of Ruby and Python. Our ability to support these new features is thanks to the recent introduction of mod_passenger support on Litespeed. Of course … Continue reading ?
Aug 18, 2017
We’re happy to announce that we now support the ability to deploy applications using various versions of Ruby and Python. Our ability to support these new features is thanks to the recent introduction of mod_passenger support on Litespeed. Of course … Continue reading ?
Jul 08, 2017
We’re constantly running promotions on our site. We thought though it be a great time to highlight some of the great discounts we’re offering for the month of July. We’re currently offering anywhere between 25% and 30% depending on the … Continue reading ?
Jul 08, 2017
We’re constantly running promotions on our site. We thought though it be a great time to highlight some of the great discounts we’re offering for the month of July. We’re currently offering anywhere between 25% and 30% depending on the … Continue reading ?
Jun 27, 2017
We’re happy to announce we’ve just finished deployment of Imunify360 to all our shared, reseller and semi dedicated hosting servers. Imunify360 is the latest innovative software by CloudLinux that enhances security significantly for linux web servers. It brings many tools … Continue reading ?
Jun 27, 2017
We’re happy to announce we’ve just finished deployment of Imunify360 to all our shared, reseller and semi dedicated hosting servers. Imunify360 is the latest innovative software by CloudLinux that enhances security significantly for linux web servers. It brings many tools … Continue reading ?
Jun 20, 2017
Today’s announcement brings two very exciting improvements to our Amsterdam datacenter. Not only are we now offering our VPS hosting plans in Amsterdam but we also enabled Cloudflares Railgun network optimizer! These changes are a direct result of customer requests … Continue reading ?
Jun 20, 2017
Today’s announcement brings two very exciting improvements to our Amsterdam datacenter. Not only are we now offering our VPS hosting plans in Amsterdam but we also enabled Cloudflares Railgun network optimizer! These changes are a direct result of customer requests … Continue reading ?
Jun 14, 2017
We’re been a bit quiet lately but we’re still working behind on the scenes on many great new features and improvements to our services here at Hawk Host. Here’s just a quick run down of a few features that have … Continue reading ?
Jun 14, 2017
We’re been a bit quiet lately but we’re still working behind on the scenes on many great new features and improvements to our services here at Hawk Host. Here’s just a quick run down of a few features that have … Continue reading ?
Feb 24, 2017
As many of you are aware a recent Cloudflare memory leak was reported. This exploit resulted in sensitive encrypted data being viewable in plaintext primarily through major search engine caches but potentially in realtime as well. As of this posting … Continue reading ?
Feb 24, 2017
As many of you are aware a recent Cloudflare memory leak was reported. This exploit resulted in sensitive encrypted data being viewable in plaintext primarily through major search engine caches but potentially in realtime as well. As of this posting … Continue reading ?
Feb 07, 2017
In the past 24 hours our team has been working diligently to deploy cPanel 62 to all our servers and we’re happy to announce this has now been completed. As always cPanel updates brings new features and various improvements. Performance … Continue reading ?
Feb 07, 2017
In the past 24 hours our team has been working diligently to deploy cPanel 62 to all our servers and we’re happy to announce this has now been completed. As always cPanel updates brings new features and various improvements. Performance … Continue reading ?
Jan 25, 2017
O Canada, our home and native land. As many of you know we’re a Canadian based company and have been since we started hosting web sites over 10 years ago. While we’ve never offered hosting in Canada (strange, right?) that’s … Continue reading ?
Dec 21, 2016
We’re here to make your holiday season a little bit better! The Christmas spirit is upon us and we’re going to spread that cheer your way by helping you sign up for our awesome hosting at a discount! This years … Continue reading ?
Dec 08, 2016
We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 7.1 on all our shared, reseller and semi-dedicated hosting services. PHP 7.1 is the first point release in the 7.x series and it comes with many outstanding improvements and new features. … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2016
Black Friday has come and gone but the fantastic deals at Hawk Host are not quite over. We’ll be running Cyber Weekend promotions all through the weekend including on Monday. Every year we offer massive discounts on our already affordable … Continue reading ?
Nov 24, 2016
We know you’ve all been waiting for this. It’s time for our Black Friday hosting specials! We’ve launched our sale a few hours early so you can start taking advantage of these great Black Friday coupons! Every year we offer … Continue reading ?
Nov 16, 2016
As Black Friday approaches we wanted to provide you with a sneak peak of the discounts and savings we’ll be offering for this years sale. As always our Black Friday event offers the largest discounts of the year for new … Continue reading ?
Nov 08, 2016
Earlier this year we announced that we’d begun offering free SSL certificates through Let’s Encrypt, an open source collaboration backed by some of the biggest names in the hosting and security industry. In the roughly 8 months that have passed … Continue reading ?
Nov 01, 2016
Welcome to November! Hard to believe we’re almost through 2016 and already posting this months specials! We’re constantly running promotions on our site. We’re currently offering anywhere between 25% and 30% depending on the hosting package. We also have many … Continue reading ?
Oct 21, 2016
As many of you have likely seen a serious Linux kernel vulnerability, aka Dirty COW, (CVE-2016-5195) was disclosed earlier this morning. This vulnerability impacts nearly every major Linux based OS, including RHEL and therefore our operating system CloudLinux. The vulnerability … Continue reading ?
Oct 07, 2016
We recently introduced two factor authentication to our cPanel and we’re now happy to announce you’ll be able to utilize two factor authentication in our client area as well. Two factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional level of security where … Continue reading ?
Oct 03, 2016
Over at Hawk Host we can’t believe it’s already the month of October. We’re constantly running promotions on our site. We thought though it be a great time to highlight some of the great discounts we’re offering for the month … Continue reading ?
Sep 22, 2016
In a previous post on our blog we discussed the idea of using the LiteSpeed page caching feature to improve performance of WordPress. The caching drastically improved the performance of a WordPress installation. You were able to go from just … Continue reading ?
Sep 20, 2016
It’s a mid-September surprise sale! As summer comes to a close and everyone returns to school we’re going to celebrate one last time in style. We’re offering a 40% recurring discount on any new order for any shared, reseller, semi-dedicated, … Continue reading ?
Sep 14, 2016
We’re happy to announce that all our servers now support the ability to utilize two-factor authentication within cPanel. Two factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional level of security where in not only your password is required but an additional code … Continue reading ?
Sep 12, 2016
OctoberCMS is an exciting new CMS software developed using the Laravel framework. It’s always been possible to run Laravel on our cPanel hosting and we’ve even written a post about how to install it on our shared web hosting. OctoberCMS … Continue reading ?
Aug 05, 2016
Our sixth hosting location is now officially online! Hong Kong is our newest datacenter for shared hosting plans and it’s our first location in China. Starting today customers can place orders for any shared hosting plan in our Hong Kong … Continue reading ?
Aug 04, 2016
Our Los Angeles datacenter is now accepting VPS orders! This is our fourth location offering VPS hosting and our first US West coast datacenter with VPS plans. Not only does our Los Angeles location offer great connectivity for North American … Continue reading ?
Jul 12, 2016
So you just opened your shiny new Magento or Opencart store. It looks great, it’s fast and it’s on a great host (Hint #1 use Hawk Host). But where are all the sales? Unfortunately your work isn’t done. Here are … Continue reading ?
Jun 28, 2016
Don’t handicap your new website by falling into beginners traps. Here are some common pitfalls you should actively avoid. Spamming Your Site There are thousands of services offering to give you a “METRIC BUTTLOAD of BACKLINKS” for only $10! If it seems too … Continue reading ?
Jun 20, 2016
Below are some no-downside tips for securing your Magento store against most of the currently known attacks. Move / Hide Important Folders You should never rely on security by obscurity as your primary means of locking up your store, but hiding … Continue reading ?
Jun 16, 2016
Due to popular demand we’re extremely pleased to announce our semi-dedicated hosting plans are now available in a new location: Singapore! We’ve previously offered these plans in our Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington DC location with great success but customers … Continue reading ?
Jun 09, 2016
Building a web site can be difficult. Very difficult. Creating an easy to use, well designed, practical, and affordable web site is seemingly impossible. One option is to spend thousands of dollars on a professionally designed site that is responsive, … Continue reading ?
May 18, 2016
With the release of cPanel version 56 comes a new feature titled ‘Site Publisher’. While the name is a bit vague using the software is anything but that. In short, the site publisher is a remarkably easy to use “editor” … Continue reading ?
May 17, 2016
While it is difficult to get users to agree to sign up for your mailing list it’s many times more difficult to keep them opening your email once they do sign up. Here are some good battle tested general tips … Continue reading ?
May 10, 2016
Running a high-performance Magento shop on shared hosting can be tricky, even for the most experienced webmasters. Magento is extremely resource hungry and will bring even dedicated servers to a crawl if you don’t take the right precautions. Here are … Continue reading ?
Apr 18, 2016
Surprise! For the next five days we’re hosting a flash sale for all new orders in our Los Angeles datacenter! You can order any new shared, reseller, or semi-dedicated hosting plan and receive either a 55% one time discount or … Continue reading ?
Apr 14, 2016
Assuming you’re willing to invest some time, learn, and get your hands dirty then these tips will help you get your store’s revenue trending upwards. Let’s dive right in. Install an “Exit Intent” lightbox For the uninitiated these are the … Continue reading ?
Feb 19, 2016
Encryption on the web has been a hot-button issue lately, one that deserves all the attention its received. Anyone even remotely tech savvy understands just how important and vital encryption is for the safety of not only individual web users … Continue reading ?
Feb 03, 2016
We’re happy to announce that effective immediately all of our Semi-Dedicated web hosting plans will get a IO speed boost for free! Now every plan will have an IO limit of 10MB/s which means you shouldn’t ever be running into IO limitations! This change should … Continue reading ?
Jan 01, 2016
Good news, everyone! We’re quite pleased to announce all of our hosting plans now offer memcached support. Even better, it’s 100% free! For those unfamiliar, memcached is a general purpose memory caching system. Its primary benefit is to cache your … Continue reading ?
Dec 25, 2015
We’re really feeling the holiday spirit this year at Hawk Host! For the past week we’ve been running our first daily holiday special promotion where we posted a different special each day. Now that our specials week is coming to … Continue reading ?
Dec 18, 2015
It’s that time of the year where everyone is shopping and looking for a bargain! While not many people receive web hosting as a gift perhaps we can lighten your monetary burden and give you some amazing deals for this holiday season. You may be … Continue reading ?
Nov 29, 2015
Everyone enjoyed our Black Friday specials so much we’ve decided to extend the sale through Cyber Monday! If you missed out on our Black Friday specials, don’t worry, it’s not too late to take advantage of these great discounts to … Continue reading ?
Nov 25, 2015
Welcome to the 2015 edition of our Black Friday hosting discounts and specials! We’re extremely happy to offer these fantastic discounts once again this year to celebrate our customers favorite shopping holiday, Black Friday! This year, just like years past, … Continue reading ?
Oct 31, 2015
Our client area just got a face lift! The new theme and layout is fully responsive, 100% mobile friendly, cleaner, and easier to navigate. You can now manage your billing, support, cPanel and more from right through the client area! … Continue reading ?
Oct 08, 2015
For nearly two years now we’ve offered unlimited bandwidth on our shared and semi-dedicated hosting packages, and the customer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The success of those plans, combined with recent network upgrades and expansions, has led to this … Continue reading ?
Aug 25, 2015
One of the most common questions we get from our customers is “How do I speed up my website?”. A large majority of these customers rely on WordPress to power their websites. As many of you are aware, WordPress is … Continue reading ?
Aug 14, 2015
If you have not been following PHP development recently PHP 7 is fast approaching with the first beta having been released just over a month ago. As is tradition here at Hawk Host we’re always pushing the envelope when it … Continue reading ?
Jul 24, 2015
It’s time for a flash sale! For the next 72 hours we’ll be offering discounts on all of our hosting services and domain registrations! Whether you need a new shared hosting plan or a new domain this sale has something … Continue reading ?
Jul 22, 2015
We recently enabled the ability to utilize Litespeed’s caching functionality which some of our user base has already started taking advantage of. For the users who have not started utilizing it I’m going to quickly describe it and provide the … Continue reading ?
Jul 17, 2015
Thanks to your feedback and requests we’ve officially launched our semi-dedicated hosting packages in Washington DC! Meant for higher resource and higher traffic sites, our semi-dedicated plans are built to perform. Compared to a normal shared hosting plan our semi-dedicated … Continue reading ?
Jul 16, 2015
For customers based in Asia and using our Los Angeles webhosting we have good news for you! We’re extremely happy to announce that our network provider in Los Angeles has reached an agreement with China Telecom to begin providing direct … Continue reading ?
Jul 13, 2015
We’re proud to announce it is now official we’re running Litespeed 5 on all our servers and will not be going back to an older version of the software. We’ve been testing 5.0 before its release and upon its official … Continue reading ?
May 26, 2015
It’s no surprise that as a customer you rely on us to be the experts in the field of web hosting. That’s understandable for a number of reasons, primarily because you pay us good money to keep your site online … Continue reading ?
May 11, 2015
We’re very happy to announce we finally have our first international reseller location! You can now place an order for any of our reseller hosting plans in Singapore. You can find more details about our Singapore network, along with speedtests … Continue reading ?
Apr 01, 2015
Admittedly we’ve never been very good at pranks. Sometimes it’s just more fun to watch everyone around you suffer from good-natured ploys at making the victim seem foolish. In light of our not-so April Fools celebration, we’ve decided to launch … Continue reading ?
Feb 11, 2015
Anyone who has ever setup a website remembers how daunting their first experience was. Terms like ‘shared hosting’, ‘register a domain’, ‘nameservers’, and ‘cPanel’, which may now be in your regular vernacular, were once a foreign language you’d someday hope … Continue reading ?
Feb 03, 2015
Up until today, any time you wanted to make a change to your hosting account (domains, databases, emails, etc) it had to be done directly through cPanel. This meant you needed to remember multiple usernames and passwords (Note: If you’re … Continue reading ?
Dec 31, 2014
As improbable as it seems, 2014 is coming to a close and 2015 is upon us. It’s hard to believe we’ve seen another 365 days come and go but here we are, and at least for us at Hawk Host … Continue reading ?
Dec 23, 2014
The often overlooked but never forgotten Canadian holiday of Boxing day is back! Every year, Canada (well, not just Canada, but we’re Canadian so we’ll focus on us) has a big sale the day after Christmas. Similar to Black Friday … Continue reading ?
Nov 25, 2014
Welcome back, friends! It’s once again that wonderful time of year where you get to sign up for our world class hosting at a fraction of the cost! Not only do this years Black Friday promotions bring larger discounts (both … Continue reading ?
Nov 03, 2014
We partnered with SpamExperts in March to bring end users enterprise level spam filtering at a cost effective level. We currently include SpamExperts free of charge for all users. It’s just a matter of utilizing the SpamExperts link in your … Continue reading ?
Sep 26, 2014
On Wednesday September 24th 2014 a vulnerability was revealed in the Bash shell interpreter which we run just like nearly every linux system online. Due to the news coverage this exploit ( CVE-2014-6271 ) has gotten our loyal customers have been … Continue reading ?
Sep 25, 2014
Lately, a lot of folks have been asking questions along the lines of “What makes you different?” or “Why should I host with you?”. This made me think, maybe a quick Q&A of some basic facts about our company would … Continue reading ?
Sep 03, 2014
We’re quite happy to announce that our newest datacenter is now online and accepting orders! Right smack in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, this highly connected and extremely reliable facility will improve on our already expansive global presence. Our … Continue reading ?
Sep 03, 2014
We’re quite happy to announce that our newest datacenter is now online and accepting orders! Right smack in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, this highly connected and extremely reliable facility will improve on our already expansive global presence. Our … Continue reading ?
Jul 02, 2014
It’s a week full of holidays and celebrations here at Hawk Host. Last week we celebrated our 10 year anniversary, and this week we’re celebrating two holidays! As we’re a Canadian company we spent Tuesday honoring Canada Day, and now … Continue reading ?
Jul 02, 2014
It’s a week full of holidays and celebrations here at Hawk Host. Last week we celebrated our 10 year anniversary, and this week we’re celebrating two holidays! As we’re a Canadian company we spent Tuesday honoring Canada Day, and now … Continue reading ?
Jun 25, 2014
Hawk Host has officially hit double digits, and we’re now 10 years old. What started as a hobby way back in 2004 has now become a full time passion for our team across the world. We’ve grown from a single … Continue reading ?
Jun 25, 2014
Hawk Host has officially hit double digits, and we’re now 10 years old. What started as a hobby way back in 2004 has now become a full time passion for our team across the world. We’ve grown from a single … Continue reading ?
Jun 24, 2014
If you were to ask a random person on the street for their favorite website, odds are the overwhelming majority would say something that ends in .com. Facebook.com, google.com, twitter.com, reddit.com…you get the idea. For what feels like forever, .com … Continue reading ?
Jun 24, 2014
If you were to ask a random person on the street for their favorite website, odds are the overwhelming majority would say something that ends in .com. Facebook.com, google.com, twitter.com, reddit.com…you get the idea. For what feels like forever, .com … Continue reading ?
May 21, 2014
We’re extremely happy to announce this is our first ever Bitcoin hosting sale! For a limited time, any customers (new or existing) who sign up and pay with Bitcoin will be eligible for a $5 domain name registration/transfer and a … Continue reading ?
May 21, 2014
We’re extremely happy to announce this is our first ever Bitcoin hosting sale! For a limited time, any customers (new or existing) who sign up and pay with Bitcoin will be eligible for a $5 domain name registration/transfer and a … Continue reading ?
Apr 16, 2014
About a month ago we decided to start accepting Bitcoin for our services – this blog post will be outlining our experiences thus far and our initial thoughts. We just recently hit a total of 1 BTC ($450~) worth of … Continue reading ?
Apr 16, 2014
About a month ago we decided to start accepting Bitcoin for our services – this blog post will be outlining our experiences thus far and our initial thoughts. We just recently hit a total of 1 BTC ($450~) worth of … Continue reading ?
Mar 24, 2014
We’ve like everyone else been battling spam for our users utilizing tools like SpamAssassin, custom filtering rules as well as the use of real time blocking lists. This however was never the most effective solution nor did it give end … Continue reading ?
Mar 24, 2014
We’ve like everyone else been battling spam for our users utilizing tools like SpamAssassin, custom filtering rules as well as the use of real time blocking lists. This however was never the most effective solution nor did it give end … Continue reading ?
Mar 13, 2014
Unless you’ve been avoiding main stream news/media for the past few years, you’ve probably heard of Bitcoin at this point. Bitcoin is a digital currency based around a P2P (peer to peer) system and relies on cryptography to bring the … Continue reading ?
Mar 13, 2014
Unless you’ve been avoiding main stream news/media for the past few years, you’ve probably heard of Bitcoin at this point. Bitcoin is a digital currency based around a P2P (peer to peer) system and relies on cryptography to bring the … Continue reading ?
Feb 19, 2014
We’re halfway through February which of course means Spring is right around the corner. For those of us based in winter climates, this year has been a rough one. Even here at our office in Buffalo we’ve gone (up until … Continue reading ?
Feb 19, 2014
We’re halfway through February which of course means Spring is right around the corner. For those of us based in winter climates, this year has been a rough one. Even here at our office in Buffalo we’ve gone (up until … Continue reading ?
Dec 26, 2013
Welcome to the 2013 edition of Hawk Hosts holiday and Boxing Day sales! For those uninitiated, Boxing Day (link to Wikipedia) is a national holiday in a number of countries celebrated the day after Christmas. Since we’re based in Canada … Continue reading ?
Dec 26, 2013
Welcome to the 2013 edition of Hawk Hosts holiday and Boxing Day sales! For those uninitiated, Boxing Day (link to Wikipedia) is a national holiday in a number of countries celebrated the day after Christmas. Since we’re based in Canada … Continue reading ?
Dec 11, 2013
This is just a brief post that hopefully helps some people so they don’t start banging their head on their keyboard. As of recently a bunch of OpenSSL* package updates have been released for *EL6 (RHEL, CloudLinux, etc) which is … Continue reading ?
Nov 30, 2013
We decided our Black Friday deals weren’t enough, and wanted to give you an opportunity to continue the savings. Who doesn’t enjoy affordable but reliable web hosting? We’re already working overtime through the weekend, so we figured hey, whats another … Continue reading ?
Nov 30, 2013
Phew! I finally have a few free minutes to write this post. The last 24 hours have been incredibly hectic (we haven’t slept much!), and we’re all extremely appreciative so many people chose to sign up with us! We realize … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2013
Welcome to another edition of Black Friday at Hawk Host! This is our third consecutive year of great savings on our already affordable hosting plans. This year we’ll be offering both one time and recurring coupons on all of our … Continue reading ?
Nov 19, 2013
Welcome to another Hawk Host edition of Black Friday! This year we’ve decided to do something different! We’ll be running specials leading up to Black Friday, and once Black Friday hits, we’ll be increasing our already impressive discounts! Last year … Continue reading ?
Nov 06, 2013
We’ve had VPS hosting plans available in our Dallas, TX and Washington DC locations for as long as I can remember. While we’ve always been happy with those two locations, we realize not everyone who wants a VPS from us … Continue reading ?
Oct 31, 2013
Happy Halloween! To celebrate the scariest holiday of them all, we’re offering a 40% recurring discount on all VPS plans based in our Dallas TX or Singapore locations. Sign up using coupon code “spookyvps” to receive your discount. The details … Continue reading ?
Oct 29, 2013
We’re happy to announce we’re now offering CloudFlare’s wonderful Railgun™ service to every user for free (shared web hosting only). You’ll simply need to go to the “CloudFlare” option within your control panel and enable it (more on that in … Continue reading ?
Oct 17, 2013
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been using RVSiteBuilder as our integrated / free site builder. While serviceable, and definitely not behind the times a few years ago, there has been a push in the hosting market over … Continue reading ?
Oct 04, 2013
We’ve had an affiliate program for some time now and most people don’t even know because we don’t actively promote it. Well today we’re happy to announce some changes that existing and new affiliates will like! Previously we offered 25% … Continue reading ?
Sep 27, 2013
As of this moment, all of our shared hosting and semi-dedicated hosting plans will now include UNLIMITED bandwidth! This upgrade comes free of cost, so there is nothing you as a current (or future) customer need to do to receive … Continue reading ?
Sep 24, 2013
Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework which means we have customers inquiring how do they go about installing it on their hosting. I’m going to go through how to install Laravel on our servers on the primary domain of … Continue reading ?
Jul 11, 2013
Today is a big day for savings apparently. For those of you out there who are gamers, the Steam summer sale has started. Anyone who lives near a 7-Eleven can walk in a get a free small Slurpee. As we’re … Continue reading ?
Jul 11, 2013
We have been offering PHP 5.5 since April 12th in the form of Beta’s then release candidates but it’s time to say we now offer the stable PHP 5.5 release. For the vast majority of users PHP 5.5 most likely … Continue reading ?
Jun 29, 2013
Breaking news from your favorite hosting provider! We’ve just updated our TLD offerings to bring you some new and exciting domain registration options. You can also get a free .net domain with any hosting order over the next 48 hours. … Continue reading ?
May 31, 2013
This is going to be a brief post as to why (as some customers have aptly pointed out) some of our IP’s will show up in completely different locations than where your website was setup in. The way most GEO-IP … Continue reading ?
May 20, 2013
We’re celebrating a holiday today here in Canada, Victoria Day. The holiday is meant to honor the birthday of Queen Victoria, who by all accounts was a pretty unique lady. She had 9 kids, took over the throne at 18 … Continue reading ?
May 15, 2013
We’re in a good mood this week it seems, as this is our second free upgrade for our customers in less than a week. Five days ago, we doubled the bandwidth limit for all reseller plans at no cost to … Continue reading ?
May 11, 2013
As of this announcement, all of our servers are now running PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 as the default versions. Up until this point (and for a number of years), we were running PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.1 as default, … Continue reading ?
May 10, 2013
Congratulations, Hawk Host resellers. You’re getting a free upgrade on your bandwidth quota. We’re doubling the limits for each reseller plan, and it won’t cost you a dime. This upgrade applies to any reseller customer on our bronze, silver, gold, … Continue reading ?
May 09, 2013
Sometimes its easy to take for granted that every customer coming your way knows all about the Internet. In reality, this is hardly the case. Your average person doesn’t know what bandwidth is or why they need it, what cPanel … Continue reading ?
Apr 12, 2013
A long time ago, we realized that offering just one PHP version (at the time, 5.2.X) was not going to last forever. As the release of PHP 5.3.X quickly approached, we needed to find a solution to let our customers … Continue reading ?
Mar 08, 2013
One of the growing trends (perhaps the largest) we’re seeing in the shared hosting industry is the number of account compromises as a result of lax security by website owners. As a host we implement a number of technologies to … Continue reading ?
Feb 28, 2013
Being in a cage doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. In fact, we’re about to put all of our users in one. Figuratively, of course. We’re working on rolling out CageFS, a technology developed and created by the … Continue reading ?
Feb 26, 2013
Time to get excited folks, our first big promotion of 2013 is here. We’ve partnered up with HostJury (http://hostjury.com), one of the industries largest and most trusted review sites, to run a promotion for 72 hours starting Wednesday, February 27th … Continue reading ?
Feb 19, 2013
In the past 12 months we’ve started deploying forms of solid state disk caching to help improve disk i/o performance on our systems. It was first seen with the deployment of Facebook Flashcache on our virtual private servers and semi … Continue reading ?
Dec 25, 2012
For Boxing Day this year, we’ll be offering up to 80% off any super shared hosting plan, along with a number of other specials for shared, reseller, semi-dedicated, and VPS plans. This is our fourth year of Boxing Day specials, … Continue reading ?
Nov 27, 2012
Since we had such a good time with our Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales (seriously, it was a blast!) we’ve decided to do one final blowout promotion before we hit December. Starting now (Tuesday, November 27th) and running through … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2012
It’s that time of year again, the holidays are upon us and yes, the most popular online consumer day is here. Cyber Monday. Shared Specials 80% off super shared hosting package in Dallas for the first year using the coupon bf2012super (Regular … Continue reading ?
Nov 22, 2012
A few days ago we posted our Black Friday specials which were originally set to be active as of Midnight on Thursday night / Friday morning. We’ve decided to let you all get a head start on these great specials, so … Continue reading ?
Nov 20, 2012
It’s that time of year again, the holidays are upon us and yes, the most popular consumer day is here. Black Friday. For retail employees, it’s a day of misery. For consumers, it’s a day of bliss (mostly). For us … Continue reading ?
Oct 15, 2012
As many of you are probably aware, October is officially breast cancer awareness month. Companies, organizations, charities, and individuals alike all come together to raise awareness about this disease and how it impacts all of our daily lives. For the … Continue reading ?
Aug 30, 2012
Summer is pretty neat. The weather is nice and warm, people are generally in better spirits, you can spend all day and night outside, and perhaps best of all, summer means baseball season. In these trying times it can be … Continue reading ?
Aug 09, 2012
The most popular name server is ISCs BIND. It’s been the market leader in name servers since the very beginning and has proven to be a reliable workhorse with robust features and reliable updates. It also has some issues that … Continue reading ?
Aug 02, 2012
We’ve been in the hosting business a long time now (just over 8 years). In that time we’ve grown by offering features our competitors don’t, support few can match, and prices well below industry standard. Part of staying ahead of … Continue reading ?
Jul 25, 2012
For the first time in company history, some of our management team left their comfortable office chairs and went to a real life hosting convention. Not just any convention though, we went to “the big one”, that being HostingCon. This … Continue reading ?
Jul 21, 2012
We’re going a little ‘off the cuff’ today with this post, and it’ll have almost nothing to do with web hosting. About the only thing this post has to do with hosting, Hawk Host, or even the internet in general … Continue reading ?
Jun 14, 2012
We don’t usually make a post about a wordpress update but this is one I was excited about for a while as there were promises of performance improvements. These improvements coming in the form of WP Query improvements. When datasets … Continue reading ?
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 ?