Hawk Host Blog

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

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