VezozVM Introduction

VezozVM is the name of our replacement software for HyperVM as well as a competitor to any other virtual machine management system currently available or being created.  The goal of the project is to provide an effective and simple system to handle management of virtual machines and the physical machines that host them.  Every day [...]

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HyperVM Situation

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 [...]

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PHP Method Chaining

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 [...]

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Marlin VPS Node Live

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 [...]

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May is Over

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.

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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 [...]

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How to Receive Better Support

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 [...]

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Zend Framework 1.8

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 [...]

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Seattle Live

Our Seattle location is now live and offering shared and reseller hosting services.  Right now we have just one machine live called Titan but I’m sure if it’s popular we’ll be adding more servers.  It of course offers all the same services shared and reseller services our other locations offer so no compromise there.  Virtual [...]

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Hawk Host Reviews

Once in a while people ask where are all the Hawk Host reviews or where can they post reviews so I’m just going to go through a few places I know of.  The obvious one is WebHostingTalk which is actually a forum but there are reviews there and anyone is welcome to post their own [...]

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