Hawk Host Blog

As some of you may know, its Black Friday tomorrow November 26th, which typically means lots of crazy deals.  Web hosting should be no different based on all kinds of deals being posted for web hosting we were not going to be left out.  So here are the deals that will go active at 12:00am Friday November 26th EST (GMT-5) and will run until 11:59pm EST (GMT-5) Friday..  So here we go with the deals for Hawk Host and Frog Host as well. Read More

October is already behind us which I just cannot believe.  The time just flies by for us it seems like I’m saying to myself wow it’s a new month and then the next thing I know the month is over.  There isn’t a day when we’re not busy helping out our customers and making sure our servers continue to run great.  That doesn’t mean we don’t have time to add new features and make improvements though. We’ve managed to make improvements and changes throughout October, just like any other month. Read More

One problem that never seems to go away is poorly constructed MySQL queries.  Due to the nature of shared web hosting the workload is extremely varied.  It does not just vary server to server, but on the same server within different time periods  There are times we optimize certain aspects, only to have those same optimizations hurt performance at a later date.  We realized that doing these tiny tweaks were getting us nowhere as the gains were minimal and at times they hurt performance more than they helped.  In light of that, we started looking for ways to permanently improve performance, regardless of query type, size, or any other factors. Read More

PHP 5.3 has been out since June 29th 2009 and while buggy at the time has started to mature to be a much more stable PHP version.  As a result users have been asking us when are we going to support it and the answer has always been incompatibilities are holding us back.  Unfortunately a lot of popular PHP scripts still do not work properly with PHP 5.3.  Then if it’s not the PHP scripts it’s modules we use or add-ons not working properly or providing problems.  A great example of that is Zend Optimizer which requires I believe you to re-encode for PHP 5.3.  It also is not considered stable either last I checked and isn’t even available to download although if you use Zend Server you do have early access to it. Read More

I cannot believe it but it’s been another fiscal year for Hawk Host Inc. already.  Our Fiscal year end always falls on August 31st and that has already passed.  It’s been an exciting year for us with lots going on in nearly every portion of Hawk Host. Read More

After several instances where my old phone had proven inadequate for my job I finally decided to get a smartphone. I wasn’t sure what to go with so after careful deliberation I opted for the new Droid 2. Read More

I cannot believe that it’s already August it felt like just yesterday I was talking about how 2010 was finally here.  It’s about a good time to post about all the interesting things that have happened in July and what is coming in August. Read More

In part 1 I went over the basics of tmux and how to utilize its basic features. In this portion I’m going to dive a bit more into customizing tmux to make it easier and prettier to work with. I’ll also give some examples on how to utilize the client/server model. Read More

tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Read More

You may have noticed if you visit our blog once in a while the theme has just changed.  I noticed the release of wordpress 3.0 included a new theme so I wanted to check it out.  To my surprise I actually like it for it’s simplicity plus supporting some of the new features.  Like you may notice right now we have the “New” Hawk Host logo displayed on the header of the blog rather than some generic picture one.  So right there it is more Hawk Host like then our previous theme.  You can do a lot more than that apparently as well Read More