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The first day full day of development on the panel went quite well we got a lot accomplished in a short amount of time.  Here’s what was accomplished yesterday: Read More

VezozVM is the name of our replacement software for HyperVM as well as a competitor to any other virtual machine management system currently available or being created.  The goal of the project is to provide an effective and simple system to handle management of virtual machines and the physical machines that host them.  Every day myself or someone else from development will be posting information about how things are going.  This could also expose what we’re doing and our we’re creating the system so it should be interesting to say the least  I am going to just answer the obvious questions now Read More

We run HyperVM as I assume most of our virtual private server customers know already and have seen all the posts all over the Internet warning about it being accessible as LxLabs the developers may not have patched all the holes.  We’ve been running HyperVM for the past day with it only being accessible to our internal IP’s which we use to access all our servers thus it is not open to the Internet due to the firewall blocking it.  This of course is not a permanent solution to the problem at hand and hopefully access will be restored at some point but the stigma from the whole situation is still there.  There are posts all over the Internet saying we will no longer go with a provider using HyperVM.  This puts us in a tough spot obviously where we could lose customers or lose potential customers.  So I’d like to at least talk about what the long term plan is for us. Read More

A post that came from my personal blog that now just points to the hawk host blog.  I figured this was worth transporting so here it is.  I have no idea how accurate it is or if the code 100% works but I believe it does.  If you do find any mistakes just post about them in the comments and I’ll correct them. Read More

It is official our Marlin VPS node located in Dallas Texas is now live.  We once again offer virtual private servers in Dallas as it’s been sold out for a few months now.  I recommend if you’ve been waiting for a virtual private server in Dallas with us that you act fast otherwise they could be sold out again.  The server is the following specification: Read More

It’s now June 1st which means May 2009 is over with and we’re on to the next month pushing forward here at Hawk Host.  May was an exciting month for us for several reasons with some of them being great others being bad.  I thought I’d go through what all has happened in May. Read More

This is just going to be a quick overview of some common methods of load balancing your web services via software load balancers. This post will have several parts, each covering different software load balancers. This particular part we will be covering Perlbal. Read More

A lot of people believe to receive good support all you need to do is make a ticket and it’ll all handle itself unfortunately this is not the case and I’d just like to outline how you can receive better support.  So here’s some tips in no particular order Read More

I just finished going through every single hosting machine we have making sure that the latest version of Zend Framework was part of the PHP include so it’s not necessary to upload it.  It was released last week and we just got around to putting it on all our servers.  As always if you need an older version or if our version is out of date you can always upload your own copy to your space.  This version is really only meant for testing and development and should not be relied on in a production environment due to the fact we always try to have the latest version available. Read More

Our Seattle location is now live and offering shared and reseller hosting services.  Right now we have just one machine live called Titan but I’m sure if it’s popular we’ll be adding more servers.  It of course offers all the same services shared and reseller services our other locations offer so no compromise there.  Virtual private servers may or may not come that is undecided it’s a new location and we’re feeling it out first before going and offering a much more expensive service.  You can check out the full announcement at http://www.hawkhost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=394 Read More