Hawk Host Blog

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

We’ve had a few users report that yum is frozen on their VPS’s.  Usually ones running cPanel and I figured it was worth a quick post about how to solve it.  The problem is usually the rpm database has become corrupt.  It’s quite easy to fix all you need to do is run a few commands and it should hopefully fix everything up. Read More

It’s been a few days since I last posted anything on the blog so I figured I’d just post what I’m up to today. Read More

Just a quick note on the blog I’ve went ahead and updated all our servers to have Zend Framework 1.7.  It was released on the 17th but we let these things sit for at least a week in case of any unexpected bugs.  I haven’t had a chance to play around with it myself but here’s some of the new features or major changes: Read More

As I mentioned a month ago we were moving our DNS systems more in house as we now have the luxury of using multiple data centers where we host our web and VPS servers.  It only made sense for us to bring for us to bring this in house to not use as much bandwidth in syncing zones and also speed everything up quite significantly.  On Friday I had planned on migrating NS2 and syncing it up and having it become part of the cluster then announce this on the weekend.  Well I got caught up in other things so I ended up starting the syncing just a few hours ago.  I’ve now realized we’ve had a lot of domains go through our system and it’s a lot more than I had thought. Read More

Shout boxes have been an increasing headache for us the past 6 months or so.  As they continue to become more popular they continue to cause more and more problems for us.  It has come to a point now where rather than dealing with them on a case by case basis we’re just flat out not allowing them.  This situation is similar to when proxy’s were becoming popular.  We just dealt with it as sites became a problem for us, however over time it became quite clear they were all eventually going to be problems. Read More

A year ago we offered a deal where a user could sign up for $5.95/yr on a plan that was actually being sold for $5.95/month.  At the time lots of users said it was an amazing deal and we had a few hundred sign ups as a result of this deal.  At the time we expected each user would stay at least two years.  The reason we did this was to have more people talking about Hawk Host.  It worked great I might add a year later our subscriber base as easily doubled and it’s for sure to double again within six months. Read More