Hawk Host Blog

Starting in July 2018, Chrome is going to start marking sites that do not use SSL/HTTPS as ‘insecure’, which is not exactly a good look from your visitors point of view. Is your site ready? If not, don’t worry, this is easy to fix. It’s even easier considering we offer all customers free SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt. Read More

We’re moving into the cloud! Over the past year we’ve been hard at work on our most ambitious project yet, and as of today we’re officially launching the first ever cloud hosting product at Hawk Host! We’ve designed our cloud to be industry competitive, reliable, and user friendly. Read More

We’re incredibly happy to announce that Hawk Host is going to be a silver level sponsor of the Let’s Encrypt project for another year! This will be our second consecutive year sponsoring Let’s Encrypt, a year which has shown SSL adoption for sites on our network increase by magnitudes even we did not expect! Read More

A vulnerability has been announced that impacts nearly all modern CPU architectures which could allow an attacker to access raw data at the kernel level. We are taking the necessary steps to apply the available patches to our systems and will continue to apply any critical updates as they’re made available by our upstream vendors. Read More

We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 7.2 on all our shared, reseller and semi-dedicated hosting services.  PHP 7.2 is the second point release in the 7.x series and it comes with many outstanding improvements and new features. Read More

Hello, 2018! As we ring in the new year we wanted to take a moment and look back at what happened here at Hawk Host in 2017. We announced new locations, introduced new features, and continued our never ending work to build out a reliable, secure, and high performing hosting infrastructure. Read More

Happy Holidays to all our Hawk Host friends! We hope everyone is having a great holiday season celebrating with family and loved ones, and staying safe of course! We’re going to close out the year on a great note and have a huge blowout sale to celebrate Christmas, Boxing Day (it’s a Canadian thing), and the upcoming New Years! You can save up to 70% on a new hosting order using the coupons below! Read More

If you’re a shared, reseller, or semi-dedicated customer hosted in our Washington DC datacenter you’ve probably received an email about an upcoming migration to our new New York City facility. If you haven’t yet received the email yet don’t worry, one will be coming soon enough, just in time for the holidays! This post will provide a bit more insight on what’s going on and what you need to do to keep your sites online through the migration. Read More

If you missed our Black Friday sales don’t worry, Cyber Monday is here for you! You can take advantage of the same discounts so it’s not too late to save up to 70% on your new hosting order! Read More

Our 2017 Black Friday sale is officially live! Sign up now for any new shared, reseller, semi-dedicated, or VPS hosting plan and receive up to a 70% discount when using our Black Friday coupons listed below Read More