Today at about 7pm EST my career of posting on the Digital Point forums has been put into real jeopardy after receiving a 6 month ban.  I do not believe it to be a fair ban by any means considering all the rule breaking and illegal activity that goes on in the various digital point [...]

Any of our clients can attest to our knowledgebase here at HawkHost is lackluster. We’re the first to admit it’s lacking some essentials. Well over the next month or so we’re going to try and revamp the knowledgebase with some frequently asked questions (asked to us by clients, prospective clients, etc). Once we finish that [...]

A few month’s ago we were lucky to see one of our customers to say “Hi” to us or grace their precense on our forums – we had a substantial amount of people we hosted yet we never heard a peep from them. We always were under the impression that we offered a solid service [...]

After recieving numerous spam e-mails to our various departments we decided to look into where they were coming from – and as predicted it was from our contact form(s). Being the silly littls nits that we are we didn’t protect it with any sort of captcha.
I recalled Tony mentioning a few weeks ago for me [...]

Well it looks like yet another new version of WordPress is out which means it’s time to start upgrading blogs again.  For us we’ll be making the upgrade in the next few days as we always stay on top of updates.  As for the new features of 2.6 here’s the run down
Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking [...]

I recently made a post about us looking to a new backup solution as our method was using a lot of bandwidth, quite a bit of cpu and taking forever to be completed.
So first I’ll talk about the bandwidth usage we’re now seeing.  Here is what it looked like before for a whole month

Here’s what [...]

We launched a VPS offering recently and anyone who has signed up as gone about their own way and never needed to talk to us.  The few that did need some help never ran into me it was usually Cody our resident expert on everything related to our VPS offering.
The day finally came when I [...]

It’s another day so it’s time for another rant about something that continues to bug me.
The naming conventions of fields in tables of a database!  There seems to be absolutely no consistency between applications and in some cases even within the application it self.   My biggest gripe I would have to say is the naming [...]

Every few months or so we end up having to block the Twiceler bot on one of our servers due to high traffic caused by it resulting in what almost could be described as a mini dos attack.  The bot is made by Cuill which supposedly has some people from Google working on it as [...]

July is finally upon us which means summer is in full swing around here.  Since it’s also July 1st that means it is Canada day but don’t worry we’re not taking the day off. So all that really changes in July is when I drive anyways I see less buses which is great.  I get [...]