Hawk Host Blog

Tomorrow some time during the afternoon all our servers will have PHP 4 removed from them due to the end of life being today (August 8th 2008).  Although there was new release on Thursday the 7th to address some security holes it’s quite clear it’s time to stop using considering in the PHP news post it also says it’ll be the last release.  For anyone who’s curious here’s what was part of the PHP 4.4.9 release: Read More

Well as most of you are aware we introduced a 1-800 about a month and a half ago. This has been a godsend and a burden all at the same time. Why? Well currently the 1-800 number forwards to only Tony and I’s cell phones, which is all peachy except the fact that we have a horrible tendency to miss calls. After debating if we should remove the 1-800 number from the public until we can properly staff it we’ve decided to introduce certain “business hours” for the 1-800 number to assure people someone will be on the other line. Read More

I check the PHP site once in a while to see if there are any new updates and to my surprise the other day they announced that PHP 5.3 alpha has been released.  We’d love to put it on Hawk Host to play around, but at this time it’s not meant for a production environment.  This of course does not stop you from loading it up on a virtual private server from us and playing around with it that way. Read More

Well it’s the end of July (already August if you’re picky) and it’s been a crazy one. It’s been one of our busiest months to date and we see no indication of it slowing down. So what should you expect this upcoming month? Well we’ll be working on getting more people on the live chat during the days (and obscure hours) while improving our 1-800 number response time / rate. We will also be working on small things such as the knowledgebase, website, and forums - so keep your eyes peeled. Read More

Today at about 7pm EST my career of posting on the Digital Point forums has been put into real jeopardy after receiving a 6 month ban.  I do not believe it to be a fair ban by any means considering all the rule breaking and illegal activity that goes on in the various digital point forums. Read More

Any of our clients can attest to our knowledgebase here at HawkHost is lackluster. We’re the first to admit it’s lacking some essentials. Well over the next month or so we’re going to try and revamp the knowledgebase with some frequently asked questions (asked to us by clients, prospective clients, etc). Once we finish that we’ll try to address more pointed issues (such as “I receive error ____ how do I fix it?”). Read More

A few month’s ago we were lucky to see one of our customers to say “Hi” to us or grace their precense on our forums - we had a substantial amount of people we hosted yet we never heard a peep from them. We always were under the impression that we offered a solid service and noone had problems so they just went about enjoying their service(s). Read More

After recieving numerous spam e-mails to our various departments we decided to look into where they were coming from - and as predicted it was from our contact form(s). Being the silly littls nits that we are we didn’t protect it with any sort of captcha. Read More

Well it looks like yet another new version of WordPress is out which means it’s time to start upgrading blogs again.  For us we’ll be making the upgrade in the next few days as we always stay on top of updates.  As for the new features of 2.6 here’s the run down Read More

I recently made a post about us looking to a new backup solution as our method was using a lot of bandwidth, quite a bit of cpu and taking forever to be completed. Read More