Hawk Host Blog

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 that the 4th of July is fast approaching it’s time to acknowledge the day for our American coworkers, friends, and customers. As part of our continued celebrations we’re holding a 4th of July sale which will save you up to 60% on your new hosting order! Read More

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 dedicated server hosting websites for friends to operating our own network while providing services out of 6 locations worldwide. It’s been a long, stressful, but ultimately rewarding journey. Truth be told, sometimes we feel like we’re just getting started! To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we’re offering up to 70% off on our shared hosting plans. You can also save up to 60% on our reseller and VPS packages, grab a $7.95 domain, or a $10 SSL certificate. Read More

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 has been the standard for all premier websites throughout the world. It didn’t matter if you were based in the USA, China, India, Ireland, or even the Isle of Man. If you wanted to find a website, you looked for the .com. For better or worse, we may see a major shift in how exactly people look for their favorite websites over the next few years. Read More

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 30% recurring discount on their hosting plan. Read More

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. Read More

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 users the type of control we wanted.  We went to HostingCon last year as well as cPanel Conference with one of our main goals was to find a spam filtering solution that would improve the email service of all our users. Read More

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 whole network together. Despite the folks at Berkshire-Hathaway and Goldman Sachs claiming it’s not an official currency, we don’t have public investors or financial gurus to worry about.  What we have to worry about is our customers, and because of that we’re more than happy to start accepting bitcoins as payment for our hosting services. Read More

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 today) 17 days straight of sub-freezing temperatures and have received nearly 100 inches of snow. To celebrate the soon to be sunlight and warmer weather, we’re offering a 48 hour “It’s Almost Spring” sale! You can save up to 60% on any shared hosting plan! Read More

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 and we’re one of the few countries that celebrate, every year we have web hosting specials for this unique holiday. Read More

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 fine and dandy. Unfortunately there is a slight issue that makes it conflict with Ruby without a minor patch. Read More