Hawk Host Blog

Get our latest news and our best sales here!

Improve cPanel Server I/O

Posted on Sun Apr 20, 2008 by Tony Baird

One of the biggest issues with web servers is I/O due to the fact hard drives are the slowest component of computers. On standard Linux servers each time a file is accessed the OS writes to the drive the time it was accessed. This sort of thing may come in handy in the odd case but for the most part on a standard cPanel server this is unnecessary writing to the hard drive. This can be turned off by setting noatime in /etc/fstab. Read More

Install latest PostgreSQL on cPanel

Posted on Sat Apr 19, 2008 by Tony Baird

As some people may know there is a handy script within cPanel’s scripts folder which can install PostgreSQL, however it does not install the latest versions. It instead installs the vendor versions which on CentOS would be coming from yum. So this means for someone running CentOS4 they’ll get about 7.3 and for someone running CentOS5 they’ll get 8.1. Both of which aren’t the newest version 8.3.1. Read More

Master Reseller Accounts

Posted on Fri Apr 18, 2008 by Tony Baird

We’ve had a few inquiries about master reseller accounts and the question always is why do we not offer them? Well I figured it was time to shed some light on exactly why we’re never going to offer them. Read More

Roundcube Webmail

Posted on Sun Apr 6, 2008 by cody

Well Tony pointed me to this Bugzilla ticket regarding cPanel integrating RoundCube Webmail into cPanel.. and my golly they finally did it. Read More

Driving Annoyances

Posted on Wed Apr 2, 2008 by Tony Baird

I don’t really have anything hosting related to talk about so I’m just going to rant about some things that really annoy me when I’m driving. Read More

Hawk Host March Madness Deals

Posted on Sat Mar 15, 2008 by Tony Baird

Since it’s March Madness time it means we need to offer a crazy deal to be part of the madness! Read More

Hawk Host Multiple Locations

Posted on Sun Mar 9, 2008 by Tony Baird

For a little while now Hawk Host has had the option of opening up a new location for hosting customers. Our provider this year is expanding out into multiple locations and bringing their tools to these locations. Our provider gives us the ability to manage all our servers without actually being physically there which a lot of providers cannot do at this point in time. So what I’m wondering is do any of our customers have any interest in having accounts hosted somewhere other than Dallas Texas? Read More

Hawk Host Happenings

Posted on Wed Mar 5, 2008 by Tony Baird

There hasn’t been a post on here since February 20th so I figured it was time to at least post something.  It’s been a pretty quiet few weeks around here nothing to exciting going on.  There was some network maintenance on March 3rd that went without any issues.  Previously to that on the 15th of February we patched a very serious kernel exploit on the Venus server.  We were lucky enough not to get exploited but a lot of larger hosts got hit by it before it was even known, so I guess we were lucky in that regards. Read More

Site Builder coming to Hawk Host

Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 by Tony Baird

We’ve been listening to everyone whether it be shared customers or resellers there has been many requests for a site builder.  We have finally made a decision on the software we will be using.  So within the next week expect to see RVSiteBuilder on all servers as well as an announcement on our forums about it.  We hope this will fill the need for a site builder at Hawk Host. Read More

PHP 5.3 lots of fun

Posted on Sat Feb 16, 2008 by Tony Baird

I’ve been reading around the internet a lot recently about PHP 5.3 and how it is going to include a lot of the features there were slated for PHP6.  I see it as an attempt to give users all the features they need because hosting providers were in no way going to upgrade to PHP6 once it was released until 6.1 came along or 6+ months later at the earliest.  This of course does not apply to Hawk Host as we had plans on running PHP6 as an option (chooseable like PHP4 and PHP5 right now) as soon as PHP6 hits a point where there aren’t releases after few seconds.  So most likely the first stable release or one of the more later release candidates. Read More

Ready to get started? Build your site from
$2.24/mo
GET STARTED NOW