Hawk Host Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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