PHP 5.3 was released on June 30th and everything is already asking when is Hawk Host going to have it on our servers! Well this is unfortunately going to take some time until it shows up on our servers is it is a major release that does have some deprecated features users may be using. [...]
I cannot believe it but we’re now into July it feels like just yesterday June was starting time sure does fly by. Things have been great due to the fantastic growth we’ve seen over the month smashing our old record for number of new accounts in a month (old one was set in May 2009). [...]
A lot of people see out sourcing in any service field as a big negative and this is especially true with web hosting. The fact is a large majority of web hosts out source their support in some way whether that be by using a company specializing in web hosting or by hiring people who [...]
We run HyperVM as I assume most of our virtual private server customers know already and have seen all the posts all over the Internet warning about it being accessible as LxLabs the developers may not have patched all the holes. We’ve been running HyperVM for the past day with it only being accessible to [...]
A post that came from my personal blog that now just points to the hawk host blog. I figured this was worth transporting so here it is. I have no idea how accurate it is or if the code 100% works but I believe it does. If you do find any mistakes just post about [...]
It is official our Marlin VPS node located in Dallas Texas is now live. We once again offer virtual private servers in Dallas as it’s been sold out for a few months now. I recommend if you’ve been waiting for a virtual private server in Dallas with us that you act fast otherwise they could [...]
It’s now June 1st which means May 2009 is over with and we’re on to the next month pushing forward here at Hawk Host. May was an exciting month for us for several reasons with some of them being great others being bad. I thought I’d go through what all has happened in May.
This is just going to be a quick overview of some common methods of load balancing your web services via software load balancers. This post will have several parts, each covering different software load balancers. This particular part we will be covering Perlbal.
In this post I’ll be using two different VPS accounts as an example [...]
A lot of people believe to receive good support all you need to do is make a ticket and it’ll all handle itself unfortunately this is not the case and I’d just like to outline how you can receive better support. So here’s some tips in no particular order
Create the ticket with the same name [...]
I just finished going through every single hosting machine we have making sure that the latest version of Zend Framework was part of the PHP include so it’s not necessary to upload it. It was released last week and we just got around to putting it on all our servers. As always if you need [...]