Hawk Host Blog

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 hosting orders. This years specials will feature discounts of up to 70% off your first payment along with recurring discounts up to 55%. By taking advantage of these discounts you can sign up for a new hosting plan for as little as $0.89/mo! That’s hard to beat! Read More

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 we’ve found the program to be a huge success and the customer adoption rate has far exceeded what we initially expected. In light of that success, combined with our continuous effort to provide the most secure hosting platform possible, we’ve decided to become an official Let’s Encrypt sponsor! This is our first official sponsorship in our company history, and it’s one we couldn’t be both more proud of and excited about. Read More

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 domain extensions for sale at as low as $2.00 for the first year. Read More

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 allows for an attacker to trigger a race condition in the memory management code which can then lead to a local privilege escalation. Read More

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 in not only your password is required but an additional code typically retrieved from another device such as a phone. Read More

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 of October.  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

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 over 200 requests/sec to 1800 requests/sec with just a simple htaccess line.  The LiteSpeed team have however worked on making it even easier to accomplish this with the introduction of their LiteSpeed Cache plugin for Wordpress.  With this plugin you have further control over your caching policies and can utilize a simplified htaccess mod_rewrite rule.  I’m going to quickly go through how you install and configure the Wordpress LiteSpeed cache plugin. Read More

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, or VPS plan! Check out the details below to get started! Read More

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 typically retrieved from another device such as a phone. Read More

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 however is not currently available in our auto installers but it’s still very easy to install. Read More