Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Knowledge.. yes.. knowledge..

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 [...]

HawkHost Reviews & Testimonials..

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 [...]

We’ve been (re)captcha’d!

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 [...]

WordPress 2.6 Released!

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 [...]

R1Soft Making a Difference

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 [...]

My First VPS Related Support Chat

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 [...]

Twiceler Bot is Garbage

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 upon us

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 [...]

Random Links Of the Day

Well I’m bored so I figured I’d throw up some random links people have sent me today.
Poking along in the left lane? Prepare to pay
Maybe this rule should be everywhere?  There’s always someone in the left lane who insists on going below the speed limit and in some cases even at the same pace as [...]

We have a lot of things comes down the pipe line this week which are very exciting.  The first big one is we’re moving away from our own backup system onto using R1Soft CDP solution.  What this means is we’ll be moving to at least daily backups and storing them for a week or more.  [...]