Archive for December, 2007

Shared Hosting Resource Usage Tips

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

New scripts / features installed
The common issue here is users simply not researching the scripts before installing them. A good first step is to check out the scripts forums for users [...]

Starbucks Monster!

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.
Occasionally I grab some expensive coffee from Starbucks when I’m on the run (just a coffee with two packets of [...]

Hawk Host Boxing Day Sale

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 [...]

Happy Holidays + More

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

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So what’s going on other than Holidays? Well we’re now running Apache 2.2 with suPHP on both PHP4 and PHP5 which is a major step to improve performance as well as make [...]

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.
So that brings us to the point of this post: [...]

Installing Ruby on Rails on cPanel

After my last post about Ruby on Rails we’ve gotten a view inquiries about exactly how you install Ruby on Rails through cPanel these days. So I figured a quick post with the steps required to run through the install would be great for those still running without Ruby on Rails on their cPanel [...]