Hawk Host Blog

We’ve had VPS hosting plans available in our Dallas, TX and Washington DC locations for as long as I can remember. While we’ve always been happy with those two locations, we realize not everyone who wants a VPS from us wants one in the US. Ever since we launched our shared hosting in Amsterdam and Singapore, customers have been asking for a VPS option in those same locations. There were a number of factors at play, but after a lot of hard work we’re finally able to announce the availability of VPS plans in our Singapore facility. Read More

Happy Halloween! To celebrate the scariest holiday of them all, we’re offering a 40% recurring discount on all VPS plans based in our Dallas TX or Singapore locations. Sign up using coupon code **"**spookyvps" to receive your discount. Read More

We’re happy to announce we’re now offering CloudFlare’s wonderful Railgun™ service to every user for free (shared web hosting only). You’ll simply need to go to the “CloudFlare” option within your control panel and enable it (more on that in a moment). Read More

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been using RVSiteBuilder as our integrated / free site builder. While serviceable, and definitely not behind the times a few years ago, there has been a push in the hosting market over the past few years to help SMBs create an online presence. With that push comes professional, easy to use, and affordable site builders. These mom and pop type shops don’t have the deep pockets like a Fortune 500 firm to hire professional designers, but they realize the lost opportunity of not having a web presence. We’re extremely excited to announce the release of our brand new, professional, and affordable site builder. The ability to create a professional looking website is now at the fingertips of every customer. Read More

We’ve had an affiliate program for some time now and most people don’t even know because we don’t actively promote it. Well today we’re happy to announce some changes that existing and new affiliates will like! Read More

As of this moment, all of our shared hosting and semi-dedicated hosting plans will now include UNLIMITED bandwidth! This upgrade comes free of cost, so there is nothing you as a current (or future) customer need to do to receive this upgrade. Read More

Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework which means we have customers inquiring how do they go about installing it on their hosting. I’m going to go through how to install Laravel on our servers on the primary domain of the account. You could also using this tutorial install it within an add-on domain or sub domain with just a few modifications. Read More

We have been offering PHP 5.5 since April 12th in the form of Beta’s then release candidates but it’s time to say we now offer the stable PHP 5.5 release.  For the vast majority of users PHP 5.5 most likely is not a good idea at this point in time.  A lot of the most common applications have yet to be tested properly under PHP 5.5.  I do know we have some brave users out there already running PHP 5.5 but most likely just for the bragging rights.  He is a quick break down some of the additional features and improvements PHP 5.5 brings for those who have made the switch. Read More

Today is a big day for savings apparently. For those of you out there who are gamers, the Steam summer sale has started. Anyone who lives near a 7-Eleven can walk in a get a free small Slurpee. As we’re all fans of both cheap games and cherry Slurpeers here at Hawk Host, it motivated us to launch our own sale. For the next 48 hours, sign up for any VPS package with the coupon code vps48 and you’ll get a 48% recurring discount. Read More

Breaking news from your favorite hosting provider! We’ve just updated our TLD offerings to bring you some new and exciting domain registration options. You can also get a free .net domain with any hosting order over the next 48 hours. More details below :) Read More