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This might look like old news to some of you, and you’d be right. We have offered these products before! We recently updated our CloudLinux product lineup, and that seemed like a good opportunity to explain how you can use CloudLinux products and what benefits we’ve seen from them at Hawk Host!

Last month, we detailed our compute platform’s ability to easily add OS images, highlighted by our addition of FreeBSD as an OS to our cloud computes. Today, we’re announcing the addition of AlmaLinux 10, aka Purple Lion, the most recent stable release of the AlmaLinux OS!

Hosting websites is second nature to us after doing it since 2004, but we know it’s brand new territory for a lot of people… and that’s totally okay. We’re putting together this guide to help cut through the jargon and explain the buzzwords that often make web hosting sound more complicated than it really is.

Lets get started.

We have inquiries from time to time about whether we offer turbo hosting or another similar nomenclature hosting. The active marketing of turbo hosting typically revolves around faster CPUs, NVMe’s, automatic caching installation, automatic plugin updates, and high uptime. We offer all the features at Hawk Host free of charge with all our hosting plans, no matter the price you pay.

Our updated cloud platform simplified and expanded our capability to introduce various new operating systems and control panels. We’re happy to announce that we’ve added FreeBSD to our operating system options. FreeBSD will be the first of many new options that you may not find available on all cloud platforms.

We believe in giving developers the flexibility they need, even when that means supporting legacy environments. While we don’t recommend running end-of-life (EOL) PHP versions in production, we’ve included HardenedPHP to help you do it as safely and securely as possible.

At Hawk Host, we choose the PHP version that is the most compatible with the current most popular PHP applications. Due to our use of HardenedPHP, which backports security fixes, we can even provide versions not necessarily supported by PHP directly. However, we have recently determined that all new shared, reseller and semi-dedicated accounts will use PHP 8.1 by default.

We’re happy to announce that we’re introducing 64GB cloud computes (virtual private servers) to all locations. Thanks to our cloud infrastructure, we’re offering the power of a dedicated server but with additional redundancy powered by our Storpool storage clusters.

Our team has worked hard in the background for several months, upgrading our cloud management panel and infrastructure in all locations, including Singapore. We’re happy to announce that you can now order cloud computes in our Singapore location again powered by our new cloud management panel.

At Hawk Host, we’ve been providing a cryptocurrency payment option since March 2014, and it’s not only exploded in popularity, but many of the original options have significantly increased in value. Our platform for accepting payments and the types of cryptocurrency we accept have evolved. BitPay has recognized our support for cryptocurrency, and we’d appreciate your vote