Hawk Host Blog

I wanted to talk about LiteSpeed today but since our Mascot is completed I thought it was worth sharing.  We had originally planned on having our new site completed by now, but as always issues with designers and we fall behind on such a goal.  We’re starting to move along now with that so hopefully it won’t be months down the line considering all the changes we’ve made lately that are not on our site.  So here’s our Mascot he’s basically the Hawk Host super hero.  I have no idea what we’re calling him. Read More

Tomorrow our first server will see it’s switch over to LiteSpeed.  We choose Jupiter as it has the least users making it the most logical choice as the first server in production to be switched over.  We do not anticipate any problems and expect to have it on other servers within no time (maintenance notices posted for the first three machines). Read More

It’s another day another exciting task for me to do at Hawk Host ;) When we were investigating the corruption problem on the CDP server I noticed we did not really have backups spread out well or in some cases there would be 3 servers at one time and at other times none going on at all.  So today I figured it was time to fix that and here’s our new schedule: Read More

It’s official after our internal testing of LiteSpeed for the past week or so we’ve decided we’re going to be switching all our servers to use the LiteSpeed web server.  From our testing it is significantly faster and also uses a heck of a lot less resources than our current configuration.  It’ll provide all the features of our current configuration and be much faster so it really has very few losing points to it.  We’re going to start upgrading on December 29th and have all our 64bit systems switched before the end of that week assuming everything goes well.  We’ll also migrate our one 32bit Harpertown based system to LiteSpeed the week after. Read More

I was browsing the Internet today and I came across the most random post on a forum about wolverine blades.  The person posted this picture: Read More

Right now we’re offering the .BIZ TLD for only $5 for the first year.  This is an excellent deal to get your hands on this quality gTLD domain.  So if your site does not currently have the .biz TLD registered this is the time to act.  Just use the coupon festivebiz08 to get the domain for just $5 for the first year. Read More

It’s been an interesting week at Hawk Host to say the least.  Even for me personally it’s been a tough week with various things going wrong.  I’m going to quickly run through my week and all that has happened. Read More

Wordpress 2.7 code named Coltrane has been released.  We just upgraded our blog and I’m liking the new look in the admin area and also it seems to be taking fewer clicks to get things done.  It’s really nice that you can now customize the look on the front page of the admin area.  So I’ll be sure to put everything in just the right spot for me which will mean something as I plan to be more active on our blog. Read More

At Hawk Host we’re always looking at using technology to have an advantages over our competitors.  Over the past few years LiteSpeed has been gaining in popularity and has even been catching on with web hosts.  It is fully compatible with cPanel which is a huge plus making it not to far out of the default configuration.  It is significantly faster than apache in serving static content.  It is also 50% faster than mod_php and numerous times faster than suPHP (we run this). Read More

This afternoon I switched some things on the Hawk Host site mostly to do with non customer facing things.  The big one was I switched the server the site runs on and the IP address as well.  This was mostly due to our site requiring more and more resources due to the amount of traffic we now receive in a daily basis.  It wasn’t too much of an issue, but our traffic has been going up for some time so I figured it was a good time to make that switch. Read More