Hawk Host Blog

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  As always if you need an older version or if our version is out of date you can always upload your own copy to your space.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

Once in a while people ask where are all the Hawk Host reviews or where can they post reviews so I’m just going to go through a few places I know of.  The obvious one is WebHostingTalk which is actually a forum but there are reviews there and anyone is welcome to post their own of us or any other host.  Now onto some of the web sites that are tracking reviews of us: Read More

This has got to be my favorite type of ticket we get because it never makes any sense.  I don’t know if it’s all the “non overselling” hosts spewing servers are overloaded if you sell more than 250MB space on a $10/month hosting account or what.  But we have had an increasing number of tickets titled this where it has nothing to do with a machine being overloaded at all.  Apparently no matter what the problem is the server is overloaded is the cause.  Here are some examples of recent tickets, chats and calls I’ve seen with regards to the servers being supposedly overloaded. Read More

We just finished deploying our latest VPS node located in Washington DC which goes by the name Jedi.  It’s our highest end machine ever being deployed coming in with the following specifications: Read More

The one thing with web hosting no matter who your market is there are a few users who cause problems for the majority of the user base.  That’s whether you’re selling 10000GB of space or 1GB of space there will be users who do things that are not advised.  We at Hawk Host deal with these and it’s growing on a daily basis how many warning emails we’re sending out or users with active tickets we’re working on resolving the problems they’re causing.  These always revolve around poorly made PHP scripts, poor MySQL queries or large amounts of traffic that is not traffic worth having.  I figured I’d share a few of the most recent ones I’ve personally had to deal with in hopes that other users will not go making the same mistakes. Read More

Seattle Washington has been an option for us to have a presence in for some time but we held off on it focusing on Dallas TX then to Washington DC.  At the end of this month unless something unanticipated happens we’re going to finally offer the option of Seattle for our shared and reseller hosting servers.  Seattle’s primary focus will be on serving markets that come to us via the west coast which means Asia.   We’re not sure when we’ll have a VPS offering there as virtual private servers are not near as popular due to their price so we’d rather give the shared and reseller market a try in Seattle first.  Seattle will of course have access to the features of all our other locations which means access to R1Soft backups and making use of our redundant DNS cluster. Read More