Hawk Host Blog

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

We launched a VPS offering recently and anyone who has signed up as gone about their own way and never needed to talk to us.  The few that did need some help never ran into me it was usually Cody our resident expert on everything related to our VPS offering. Read More

Every few months or so we end up having to block the Twiceler bot on one of our servers due to high traffic caused by it resulting in what almost could be described as a mini dos attack.  The bot is made by Cuill which supposedly has some people from Google working on it as well as quite a bit of venture capital.  It sure does not show with their Twiceler bot however.  It is supposedly experimental at this point but they’ve let it loose on the Internet and every web master out there is complaining about it. Read More

It’s another day so it’s time for another rant about something that continues to bug me. Read More