FreshRSS Tips: Turn Search Into a Rules Engine

It is easy to treat the FreshRSS search box like every other search box: type a word, scan the results, move on.

That misses most of what it can do. The box accepts a small query language, and FreshRSS builds its best automation on top of it. The same expression that finds articles can run automatically on everything a feed receives. Save it and you have a virtual feed; share it and another application can subscribe to the result as RSS.

Over the past year, we’ve been introducing a variety of local payment methods in Asia. We completely understand that Asia is not the only place with preferred local payment methods. We’re happy to announce we now also offer local methods in Brazil and Mexico.

Softaculous Spotlight #4: FreshRSS

A self-hosted feed reader with search, filtering, scraping, and mobile sync.

I follow plenty of blogs and software projects, but I don’t want to check every site by hand or trust a social feed to show me what I missed. FreshRSS gathers those updates in one place, gives me useful filters, and runs on shared hosting.

Labour Day weekend (Labor Day for Americans) is upon us, and school for much of North America will start back up afterward. Hawk Host is offering a set of promotions to help you get affordable hosting for the school year.

September is here, and we’re at the beginning of fall, and our domain extension promotions are continuing. You can get a great deal on a .com for only $9.99 for the first year, but we have promotions on .net, .app, .dev, and many others.

For those in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is coming to a close as everyone goes back to school and the final quarter of the year begins. You’re probably wrapping up any fun projects now, but we wanted to give everyone one last opportunity to get an excellent discount on a vareity of our services.

Mautic Tips and Tricks

Marketing automation has a deserved reputation for being finicky. Mautic is one of the most capable self-hosted platforms available, but it’s more than happy to let you build a confusing mess if you jump in without a plan.

Softaculous Spotlight #3: Mautic

Self-hosted marketing automation without the per-contact pricing.

Commercial marketing platforms have a bad habit of punishing growth. They start cheap right up until your contact list starts growing. Before long, you’re paying double all because there are a few more names in the database.

Mautic solves this by giving you the same tools you expect from commercial platforms, but on infrastructure you control.

WordPress currently powers 43% of all active websites on the internet, and that number is similarly high at Hawk Host. WordPress, while originally primarily a blogging platform, has long since become the dominant content management system as well. That ecosystem, though, has continued to grow, and it now powers many storefronts with the help of WooCommerce. The extensive WordPress plugin and theme ecosystem has resulted in websites of all kinds being powered by WordPress. As a result of how popular WordPress is, there are now a variety of WordPress specific hosting and management services. What you may not be aware of is that Hawk Host provides many of these same services and features free of charge with all our web hosting accounts.

August is here and we’re in the heart of summer, and our domain extension promotions continue to heat up. You can, of course, get a great deal on .com, net, and .xyz but we also have a great deal on .co and many other popular domain extensions.