Hawk Host Blog

One of the most common features of shared hosting is a site builder, and the market has stiff competition to offer the best builder possible. It used to be enough to provide a basic template, but that is no longer true. Modern site builders are fully featured and fully user-powered, enabling even the least technical users to create a unique and professional site. Sitejet has taken that a step further by introducing AI elements to help set up your site’s layout, craft your content, and perfect your site’s appearance!

For the Northern Hemisphere, the end of summer is September 22nd; however, for many, the last week of August is the last opportunity to enjoy summer. We’re giving everyone one last opportunity to enjoy summer by offering up to 70% off new hosting orders.

We previously discussed our ability to quickly add new operating systems and ensure they’re up to date. We’re happy to announce that we’ve added Debian 13 Trixie to our growing list of operating systems. Also, while unannounced, we recently added RockyLinux 10.

Over the last two months, our team has been working on upgrading all of our shared, reseller, and semi-dedicated servers from CloudLinux 7 to CloudLinux 8. We wanted to provide more insight into why we did that and the benefits of the upgrade.

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.