Hawk Host Blog

Here at Hawk Host we’ve noticed the art of canceling a service you’re paying for is a forgotten art.  With the introduction if Paypal as a common payment method for many services such as web hosting users are not seeing a reason to official cancel their service.  With web hosting for the host it is not worth the effort to go after the few dollars the customer owed for not canceling the service.  Paypal has provided a great service, but this is the one issue with it is the users now choose when to pay and can cancel a subscription whenever they wish. Read More

As a web host we’re expected to keep things stable, but at the same time introduce new features which means updating software.  This can be problematic as we do not actually develop any of the major software we use which means we are reliant on the developers of the software.  The majority of the developers of the software do not run these on production operations themselves which means we need to hope they introduce new features that don’t break things.  This unfortunately was not the case recently as we had two pieces of software that run on all machines break in someway. Read More

We try to keep up with the latest trends and services people want from us, but we’re careful not to jump into things too quickly. We want to offer a plethora of services - but we want to do it right and keep the quality high. Read More

Here at Hawk Host we support (and use in-house) Zend Framework on all of our servers and the response has been amazing. I was a bit curious what other PHP Frameworks were available so I went searching and made a little list. The point of this post is to give people some frameworks they can use here at Hawk Host, and if there’s enough demand we may start supporting certain ones. Read More

Here at HawkHost we take security very seriously. In light of the Nation Threat Advisory (Elevated) we’ve hired some new staff to not only harden our machines, but to protect them physically in case someone attempts to fiddle with the hardware. Read More

My Ipod was eventually going to break at some point as it was I believe a 3rd generation Ipod and I think it’s over 5 years old now but I could be wrong. It had issues with locking up randomly for close to 2 years now and I had not thought much of it since the original warranty and the store warranty ran out a long time ago. The freezing issues of course could be solved with a simple reset of the Ipod which I was getting quite good at I might add. Read More

Hawk Host although primarily web hosting we do handle various software development efforts as paying developers to do something is expensive and there is no guarantee of it being to your specification.  So we take advantage of the fact I am an aspiring Software Engineer and someday hope to actually get a degree (right now I’m too busy doing Hawk Host related things to take the whole school thing serious). Read More

Over the past few weeks we’ve been making a lot of internal changes to help improve our efficiencies as we were still doing things like we did them three years ago.  When Hawk Host started as Devoted Host the primary offering was reseller accounts that came with quite a bit of resources but were also very reliable.  I would say over the past 8 months or so we’ve started doing a lot more shared accounts compared to reseller accounts due to our more competitive prices on them and our focus on adding more of them.  Now this isn’t a big deal, however due to our reseller focus we never had a good setup for activating and controlling shared hosting accounts.  We ran them without packages and also without them being contained in special reseller accounts to do branding of the control panel and various things like that.  Over the past few weeks we’ve slowly been migrating shared accounts onto special reseller accounts on each server so that we can stand doing cPanel branding and special offers and things like that.  A painful process which we hope to have done very soon. Read More

Right now we’re offering 50% off the first payment on any of our shared or reseller packages when using the coupon spring2008.  This could be a great way to try out our services at a very affordable price.  However it could also be used to get an amazing price if you choose to pay a year in advance! Read More

Well here’s an early announcement that we now have our own Merchant account which means we’ll no longer be dealing with 3rd party credit card processors.  It’s just going to be a matter of setting everything up and we’ll be ready to accept credit card payments right from our site and also automatically charge credit cards each month.  So once that happens we’ll accept Paypal which will obviously still send you to the Paypal site but credit card handling will be handled on our site. Read More