Archive for January, 2008

Web Host Support Secret

Customers are always asking us how in the world do we respond to tickets so fast at the most random of times. Well I’ve decided to reveal that secret to the world and trust me it’ll surprise you! Our secret is Cyborgs or more specifically the ones that you see in Terminator.
So how [...]

Lets Go PHP5

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. [...]

Hard Drive Failure Without Down Time

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hawk Host Testimonials

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:

Website URL
Full Name
Brief [...]

2008 Hawk Host Coupons So Far

I’m just making a quick post to go through the coupons that are currently still active as of 2008
s20percent
Gets you 20% off any shared package
firstdeal2008
Gets you 35% off our advanced and super shared packages
r25percent
Gets you 25% off any of our reseller packages
That’s all for now, hopefully this is helpful for some of you looking to [...]