Hawk Host Blog

We’re happy to announce we’re now offering CloudFlare’s wonderful Railgun™ service to every user for free (shared web hosting only). You’ll simply need to go to the “CloudFlare” option within your control panel and enable it (more on that in a moment). Read More

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been using RVSiteBuilder as our integrated / free site builder. While serviceable, and definitely not behind the times a few years ago, there has been a push in the hosting market over the past few years to help SMBs create an online presence. With that push comes professional, easy to use, and affordable site builders. These mom and pop type shops don’t have the deep pockets like a Fortune 500 firm to hire professional designers, but they realize the lost opportunity of not having a web presence. We’re extremely excited to announce the release of our brand new, professional, and affordable site builder. The ability to create a professional looking website is now at the fingertips of every customer. Read More

We’ve had an affiliate program for some time now and most people don’t even know because we don’t actively promote it. Well today we’re happy to announce some changes that existing and new affiliates will like! Read More

As of this moment, all of our shared hosting and semi-dedicated hosting plans will now include UNLIMITED bandwidth! This upgrade comes free of cost, so there is nothing you as a current (or future) customer need to do to receive this upgrade. Read More

Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework which means we have customers inquiring how do they go about installing it on their hosting. I’m going to go through how to install Laravel on our servers on the primary domain of the account. You could also using this tutorial install it within an add-on domain or sub domain with just a few modifications. Read More

We have been offering PHP 5.5 since April 12th in the form of Beta’s then release candidates but it’s time to say we now offer the stable PHP 5.5 release.  For the vast majority of users PHP 5.5 most likely is not a good idea at this point in time.  A lot of the most common applications have yet to be tested properly under PHP 5.5.  I do know we have some brave users out there already running PHP 5.5 but most likely just for the bragging rights.  He is a quick break down some of the additional features and improvements PHP 5.5 brings for those who have made the switch. Read More

Today is a big day for savings apparently. For those of you out there who are gamers, the Steam summer sale has started. Anyone who lives near a 7-Eleven can walk in a get a free small Slurpee. As we’re all fans of both cheap games and cherry Slurpeers here at Hawk Host, it motivated us to launch our own sale. For the next 48 hours, sign up for any VPS package with the coupon code vps48 and you’ll get a 48% recurring discount. Read More

Breaking news from your favorite hosting provider! We’ve just updated our TLD offerings to bring you some new and exciting domain registration options. You can also get a free .net domain with any hosting order over the next 48 hours. More details below :) Read More

This is going to be a brief post as to why (as some customers have aptly pointed out) some of our IP’s will show up in completely different locations than where your website was setup in. Read More

We’re celebrating a holiday today here in Canada, Victoria Day. The holiday is meant to honor the birthday of Queen Victoria, who by all accounts was a pretty unique lady. She had 9 kids, took over the throne at 18 years old, and had a reign that lasted just shy of 64 years. As a proud Canadian company (with a little bit of time on our hands today), I figured we’d make a blog post dedicated to the great white North. Read More