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Anyone who keeps up with us socially (here at the blog, on Twitter, Facebook, or our forums) knows that we’ve moved all of our shared and reseller hosting servers over to Cloud Linux. We use those words a lot too, come to think of it. So as I sit here on a peaceful Sunday night at the local coffee shop, it occurred to me that we’ve never really covered what this Cloud Linux thing is. Instead of doing what I came here to do which is mostly browse reddit and look at funny pictures on the internet, I’m going to go over what exactly Cloud Linux is, what it brings to the table, and some of the more technical aspects of it. Read More

Month one of 2011 is behind us. I wouldn’t believe it if someone didn’t show me a calendar to prove it though. With how busy we’ve been all sense of time is warped, and I couldn’t tell you if it’s summer, winter, night time or day time. We’re changing things up this month and I’ll be writing this months report (I’m Brian, by the way) as Tony, our usual author, is incredibly busy doing…business things. I don’t really know what that means, but he’s the CEO and all, so I assume that means it’s important. Down to the good stuff! Read More

Another year is behind us we’re already into January 2011 I cannot believe it.  The time sure does fly around here as we are always working on something.  Even when things seem silent as far as new features we’re constantly adding more hardware or making various tiny changes.  The year of 2010 was a great one for us including the month of December so now it’s time to summarize what happened last month. Read More

Since we did this for our Black Friday sale, we figured why not throw some numbers at our avid readers about the results of our Boxing Day sale. Read More

The holidays are upon us and for people around the world that means family, friends, good food, and if you’re lucky a few gifts. Oh, and Boxing Day. While it’s a lesser known event compared to Black Friday (which was awesome for us), it’s still pretty popular in Canada. Luckily for you all, we’re based in Canada so we’re going to celebrate! For anyone who missed out on our Black Friday specials, here’s your chance to get the exact same savings for Boxing Day. That means up to 80% off a super hosting plan. So starting at 12:00am CST December 26th (GMT-6) and ending at 11:59pm CST (GMT-6), the following coupons and savings will be active: Read More

There was a big Softaculous update released today which brings their total available scripts to 175!  They are closing in on the 200 mark quickly and blowing all the other auto installers out of the water in terms of total scripts.  They are also significantly faster in updating compared to others like Fantastico.  Here is the list of new software that was made available today: Read More

As you’re probably already aware we ran a promotion on Black Friday. The response was more than we expected so we thought it may be interesting to see exactly what sort of volume we did that Friday. These statistics will be based on the 24 hour window the promotion was running. Read More

There was a time when we rarely saw problems with WordPress installations causing performance issues.  That was years ago though, and now things sure have changed. Any issues were mostly a mix of forums with weird modifications, extremely high traffic web sites or poorly made custom coded web sites.  It all changed when WordPress became more user-friendly for the average end user and allowed you to install plugins and themes in their WordPress control panel. Read More

It’s that time already another month is behind us.  November seemed to fly by with how busy we were at Hawk Host.  We were doing all kinds of things keeping us busy it was not just servers but various other improvements as well.  Some of this being behind the scenes improvements others being things you may have already noticed. Read More

As some of you may know, its Black Friday tomorrow November 26th, which typically means lots of crazy deals.  Web hosting should be no different based on all kinds of deals being posted for web hosting we were not going to be left out.  So here are the deals that will go active at 12:00am Friday November 26th EST (GMT-5) and will run until 11:59pm EST (GMT-5) Friday..  So here we go with the deals for Hawk Host and Frog Host as well. Read More