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We’re happy to announce that we’ve purchased a machine in Texas for our Virtual Private Servers. This means you can now choose which location you would rather be in (the other being Washington DC). Read More

There has not been a new post in a bit so I figured I’d just write about some random things to keep things fresh. Read More

We don’t normally post too many promotions on our blog, namely because we rather rant about things such as WoW, Cats, and Tony’s car. This is an exception because not only is it a stunning deal, but its the first of its kind with us at HawkHost. Read More

World of Warcraft is a pretty interesting game with so many people being addicted to it.  Today I came across an article that I just could not at least spread the word about.  There is a person who has 36 world of warcraft accounts which is costing him $5711 a year!  I played the game for a bit got to level 60 and just sort of stopped playing it.  The expansion came out and I bought that of course and I got sick of leveling after I reached about level 64.  The game was just to time consuming for me and I had better things to do with my time such as maybe running Hawk Host. Read More

It was an interesting last week to say the bit and just my luck I was the one there to deal with them.  I figured I’d write about them and the solutions I came up with to solve them. Read More

What do all of these websites have in common? They bring ungodly amounts of traffic to the (un)lucky patron who reaches the frontpage - so much that it brings a good portion of hosts to their knee’s for the sudden surge in traffic. Namely shared hosting providers are affected the most by this since their are numerous websites on the same server - meaning that there is *typically* less room for excessive resource usage. Read More

Just a quick update our Subversion + Trac features are now live on all servers.  You can find the announcement at http://www.hawkhost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180 .  You can also find it as an official feature on our shared and reseller comparison pages.  Here’s a quick link to the shared page: http://www.hawkhost.com/Shared/compare Read More

Things have been quiet the past week or so with nothing to really report.  So I figured I’d post what little information I have about things as they stand. Read More

Zend Framework 1.6 was just released and we already have it on all our servers.  I can honestly say I did not have time to play around with the release candidate versions so my knowledge of it is not great.  I am however as I write this working on porting our website to use Zend Framework 1.6.  This basically means I need to drop in the new folder and confirm the smarty view system works fine which it does!  I’ve actually already found one use for it which is the Zend_Service_ReCaptcha functionality as it is the quickest solution.  Our site currently makes use of it using an outside library I’m assuming (Cody setup the captcha).  Here’s a quick run down of how easy this is to implement: Read More

The Subversion and Trac Manager I was talking about ages ago and recently a few months ago is finally on some of our servers and working!  I would like to thank the good people over at RV Global Soft for creating this module and taking the time to read all my feedback.  It was originally going to be a different add-on however it is now part of Rvskin so a lot of hosts may end up using it eventually.  I’ve been working with Rvskin working out all the bugs for some time and last night they were able to fix the last remaining issues I encountered.  I was really committed to solving all the problems which meant I was actually using gdb to debug crashes in the patched subversion as well as determining issues with their installer.  I believe all the issues are worked out and 2 of our machines now have it fully working.  Those machines are Venus and Skyline and you can find the subversion and trac manager if you’re using the rvskin.  All our 32bit machines should have it showing up once the next release is made with all the latest fixes.  As far as our 64bit systems they’ll see it on their systems once RV Global Soft patches things up for 64bit system. Read More