Hawk Host Blog

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 exciting announcement: effective immediately, all new reseller hosting packages will also include unlimited bandwidth! Read More

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 an extremely flexible platform, able to power sites ranging from a personal blog to a high traffic e-commerce website. Whether you’re running a hobby site or a business it’s important to keep your site tuned up and performing as fast as possible. Read More

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 comes to shared web hosting.  That is why as of today we officially support PHP 7 even though it’s currently beta. Read More

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 for you. Read More

Update: We now have a guide for the LiteSpeed Cache Wordpress Plugin Read More

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 packages offer twice as much CPU, memory, and MySQL connections, along with a higher outbound email limit and daily off-site backups taken twice per day. Like all of our other plans these are SSD powered servers with the newest high performance processors and 32GB of memory. Needless to say if you need a high performance environment our semi-dedicated plans are right for you. Read More

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 connectivity from their customers to our Los Angeles datacenter. As China’s largest ISP, this is a massive improvement in terms of both capacity and routing for all users on our network. This is a significant upgrade to our already robust trans-Pacific network and customers should begin seeing optimized routing, reduced latency, and fewer issues related to congestion at peak traffic hours. What this ultimately means is faster connectivity to your web sites, not only for you but for all your visitors and traffic from Asia, specifically mainland China. Read More

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 stable release we had started our roll out to a larger amount of our users.  We spent nearly a month working with the Litespeed team as we uncovered bugs in our environment and they quickly fixed them.  We’re now confident that Litespeed 5 is here to stay at Hawk Host and it’s time for all our users to know so they can take advantage of the many new features. Read More

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 and make sure we meet our end of the deal. That’s all good and well when things are working but what happens when they’re not? Lets say for the sake of example you get a message from one of your customers saying they can’t reach your site. You first think “well that’s not good.” Your second thought, like most customers, is “what did my host break now!?” And this is where the fun really begins. Whether it’s a server/network issue on our side, or a code/plugin issue with your software, your site is offline and you’re about to open a ticket with someone on our team. How you proceed from here can dictate just how fast we’re able to help you and figure out your problem. Read More

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 and test IPs, right on our site at https://www.hawkhost.com/our-hosting-network/singapore Read More