Hawk Host Blog

We’re going a little ‘off the cuff’ today with this post, and it’ll have almost nothing to do with web hosting. About the only thing this post has to do with hosting, Hawk Host, or even the internet in general is that we have an office in Buffalo. Everybody here loves hockey, specifically Buffalo Sabres hockey. When you live in a city where the average temperature on any given winter day is around 20F and had it’s prime back in the late 1800s/early 1900s, you need to find something to do. That is why we’re known as a drinking town with a hockey problem. But I’ll be damned if you can find a group of people with more pride in their city, or sports teams, than us Buffalonians. Read More

We don’t usually post about a WordPress updates but this is one I was excited about for awhile as there were promises of performance improvements.  These improvements come in the form of WordPress MySQL Query improvements.  When you have a lot of posts on your WordPress installation it starts creating large temporary tables.  From what people have been posting in the initial tracker ticket about this it should significantly improve performance when a WordPress installation has a large number of posts.  We hope this holds true for all our customers as we’re constantly seeing slow and intensive queries exactly like were described in the ticket issue from a lot of our users. Read More

If you did not know yet cPanel 11.32 hit the RELEASE builds a little while ago and this week finally made it’s way to STABLE which is the most conservative version of cPanel.  We run RELEASE but with every major version from cPanel we’re more cautious holding back upgrading our servers until it reaches STABLE builds.  The reason being usually upon the initial release there are stability issues so we let others take the initial plunge.  The great news is though we’re preparing to take that plunge on Monday with all our servers being upgraded to 11.32. Read More

We’re happy to announce we officially support PHP 5.4 on all of our shared web hosting packages! You’ll be able to utilize it on your account by following these instructions in our knowledge base or contacting our support department. Read More

Every 4 years, we’re lucky enough to be given an extra day in February. This is known as a leap year, or a bissextile year, or a intercalary year. Normally we treat this as just another day (like most people), but today we feel like celebrating. So effective 12:00 AM CST through 11:59 PM CST on February 29th, we’re offering a 60% discount on all shared hosting orders. This is a one time discount valid for your first payment only. Read More

If you’ve logged into our client area in the past 48 hours, you may have noticed a slight change in our quick navigation (click for a picture), with the addition of a Google AdWords link. That link is good for an AdWords credit, for you, for free. All you’re required to do is click a button to claim the code, head on over to Google Adwords homepage to create an account, setup a campaign and redeem your code which is worth $100 of AdWords credit. With an afternoons worth of work, you’ll be advertising your site to thousands of potential visitors for a total cost of $0. Read More

Happy New Years! December was certainly a fitting way to cap off an adventurous 2011. Throughout the month we upgraded our VPS plans, had another massive sale, and bought some new toys, all the while finding time to celebrate the holidays. Read More

It’s the holiday season, so we’re of course feeling generous. Then again who isn’t, with all the holiday cheer, festive music and decorations you can’t help but notice everywhere you go. Bringing that spirit to our hosting world, we’ve decided to provide free bandwidth and memory upgrades to all of our VPS customers. Read More

The holidays are upon us and for people around the world that means family, friends, good food, and if you’re lucky a few gifts. Oh, and Boxing Day. While it’s a lesser known event compared to Black Friday, it’s still pretty popular in Canada. Luckily for you all, we’re based in Canada so we’re going to celebrate! For anyone who missed out on our Black Friday specials, here’s your chance to get the exact same savings for Boxing Day. That means up to 80% off a super hosting plan. So starting at 12:00am CST December 26th (GMT-6) and ending at 11:59pm CST (GMT-6), the following coupons and savings will be active: Read More

Now that we’re into the final month of the year, it’s easy to look back and reflect on all the movement we’ve made as a company in the past 11 months. Focusing specifically on November though, we opened a new location, broke sales records (with a large margin), and launched our own VPS panel. Not a bad month! :) Read More