Hawk Host Blog

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, mobile friendly, modern, and easy on the eyes. For most of us it’s just not practical to spend that much on a website. That’s where Weebly comes in. Weebly gives you the power to create a professional looking and feature rich website for free. Read More

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” that lets you get a quick website up in less than 5 minutes. Well, the first time may take you 5 minutes, but once you know what you’re doing it will take about 30 seconds to get the publisher working on any of your sites. Read More

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 to improve your newsletter. Read More

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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 a 40% recurring discount. Those are some pretty hefty savings, so don’t let this one pass you by. Read More

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. Read More

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 but for the Internet ecoystem as a whole. It should come as no surprise that we’re huge proponents of encryption as part of our hosting environment/platform, and that’s why we’re now offering free SSL certificates as part of the Let’s Encrypt program. All customers are immediately eligible to install a free and trusted SSL certificate on their account. Read More

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! Read More

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 database requests and reduce (or eliminate) the need to hit your database for common queries. For a number of sites (especially those that run Wordpress), inefficient queries are one of the most common causes for site slowdowns. Caching those queries and serving them from memory will show some drastic performance improvements for even your busiest sites. Read More

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 a close, it’s time to unveil our largest discount yet! For the next 48 hours you can save up to 75% on your new shared hosting order. It’s a Christmas miracle! Read More