Hawk Host Blog

I felt it was time to just come out and say it. It’s time every Hawk Host customers goes PHP5 and that will happen by default starting February 1st. PHP5 includes lots of great improvements which are not compatible with PHP4 resulting in most developers currently not taking advantage of the features. As a result of this even scripts compatible with PHP5 are simply PHP4 scripts with a few fixes to make it work in both versions. As a result the new features are not being taken advantage of by developers and the blame is on hosts like us and you the web site. Read More

I constantly read about web hosts who lose a hard drive then the server is down for days because data has to be restored via backups. I shake my head every time I read about this as you know 99% of them are not running any form of raid. These hosts figure what are the chances the hard drives are going to fail? I can tell you the chances are much higher than they think and that’s a big reason why we use raid or specifically raid-10 (4 drives)and we make sure all servers the drives are hot swappable. Read More

cPanel recently made the switch to a new Apache system which improved the maintainability of the system easier however did increase the overhead quite significantly. As a result restarting say apache when you add a domain can take quite a while long enough that it may be noticeable. We were noticing this with a few random 1 minute down times each week which was becoming increasingly annoying getting SMS notices a couple times a week only to find nothing down. The problem comes from all the includes that are there by default to help make it easier to do customizations. Here’s all the includes on each vhost of a httpd.conf Read More

If you didn’t notice our testimonials on the front page (all three of them) are a bit slim / haven’t been updated in some time. It was never mentioned but anyone who would like to be added to the testimonials on the front page (rotation) just submit a ticket with the following details: Read More

I’m just making a quick post to go through the coupons that are currently still active as of 2008 Read More

We have customers from time to time be real resource hogs. We’ve found two common types of users using all the resources Read More

Thought his is a bit off topic I thought I would share my story with the Starbucks Monster that was created by having a cup of coffee fester on my desk for a month or so. Read More

Here’s our first time posting deals on our blog. These of course will be spread around the internet, however not all the coupons will be showing up on forum posts we make. All these coupons will be valid until January 2nd or until they reach their limits since obviously a 1 day boxing day sale would be way too short! Read More

Everyone here at Hawk Host would like to wish everyone a Happy Holidays. Other than that here’s a nice picture :) Read More

We’ve never really considered supporting PostgreSQL (will be referred to as PGSQL for the remainder of this post) until recently when someone had a inquiry about why we don’t offer it. Unfortunately the only good answer we had was we haven’t seen a demand for it. Read More