Hawk Host Blog

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 ability to launch Redis and we’ve seen other similar applications on accounts as well.  This lead to us taking a step back and looking at a more complete solution and applying what we had learned about how our memcached feature was being used.  I’m happy to introduce a much more complete solution our Application Manager (Server Application Manager in your cPanel). Read More

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 continually taken steps to not only alleviate those concerns by talking to clients but we’ve also invested in security and technology upgrades that make our shared hosting as secure as it can be. Read More

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 this version is no different. Read More

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 into the trap of thinking their software can scale indefinitely without any optimizations and without being mindful of the plugins, themes, or addons you’re installing. This is a particularly common problem with WordPress and as a result we’ve found a few basic debugging steps can go a long way in finding out where your sites bottlenecks are and how to fix them. Read More

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 with Litespeed it always includes numerous performance improvements over other implementations so that your application can be just that much faster. Read More

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 hosting package.  We also have many domain extensions for sale at as low as $1.50 for the first year. Read More

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 for our system administrators but also significant improvements to the potential security of all accounts on our servers.  It introduces an advanced firewall, smart intrusion detection system, malware scanning and has many other great features planned. Read More

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 and feedback from what you wanted to see us offer. Read More

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 recently became available to everyone. Read More

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 the exploit has been fixed and we’re told no further disclosures are occurring. Read More