Hawk Host Blog

For the past two weeks or so we’ve been upgrading all servers to Xeon 5000 series CPU’s, CentOS 5 and 64 bit.  This is finally completed and all our servers are up to the same hardware specifications.  One machine is not 64bit but it was already running high end hardware so we felt it wasn’t a necessary switch.  So this was all completed late last week which meant my 16 hour days were over and I had to no longer worry about migrating accounts.  Being the control freak that I am I made it my duty to complete this all as I had done this before.  Along with that our LiteSpeed setup has drastically improved in terms of compatibility and speed. We’ve worked with them to solve problems we encountered with compatibility.  We have also made tweaks to the setup to improve performance compared to the original deployment of LiteSpeed.  The improvements were nothing to major but in some odd cases it might improve things.  A real learning as you go situation which is always the case with software.  Even to this day every single cPanel trick isn’t known and once in a while a new thing is figured out. Read More

We’ve been running LiteSpeed on all our servers with Intel Xeon 5430’s for quite a few days now and I figured it was time to post my thoughts on this whole thing. Read More

I wanted to talk about LiteSpeed today but since our Mascot is completed I thought it was worth sharing.  We had originally planned on having our new site completed by now, but as always issues with designers and we fall behind on such a goal.  We’re starting to move along now with that so hopefully it won’t be months down the line considering all the changes we’ve made lately that are not on our site.  So here’s our Mascot he’s basically the Hawk Host super hero.  I have no idea what we’re calling him. Read More

Tomorrow our first server will see it’s switch over to LiteSpeed.  We choose Jupiter as it has the least users making it the most logical choice as the first server in production to be switched over.  We do not anticipate any problems and expect to have it on other servers within no time (maintenance notices posted for the first three machines). Read More

It’s another day another exciting task for me to do at Hawk Host ;) When we were investigating the corruption problem on the CDP server I noticed we did not really have backups spread out well or in some cases there would be 3 servers at one time and at other times none going on at all.  So today I figured it was time to fix that and here’s our new schedule: Read More

It’s official after our internal testing of LiteSpeed for the past week or so we’ve decided we’re going to be switching all our servers to use the LiteSpeed web server.  From our testing it is significantly faster and also uses a heck of a lot less resources than our current configuration.  It’ll provide all the features of our current configuration and be much faster so it really has very few losing points to it.  We’re going to start upgrading on December 29th and have all our 64bit systems switched before the end of that week assuming everything goes well.  We’ll also migrate our one 32bit Harpertown based system to LiteSpeed the week after. Read More

I was browsing the Internet today and I came across the most random post on a forum about wolverine blades.  The person posted this picture: Read More

Right now we’re offering the .BIZ TLD for only $5 for the first year.  This is an excellent deal to get your hands on this quality gTLD domain.  So if your site does not currently have the .biz TLD registered this is the time to act.  Just use the coupon festivebiz08 to get the domain for just $5 for the first year. Read More

It’s been an interesting week at Hawk Host to say the least.  Even for me personally it’s been a tough week with various things going wrong.  I’m going to quickly run through my week and all that has happened. Read More

Wordpress 2.7 code named Coltrane has been released.  We just upgraded our blog and I’m liking the new look in the admin area and also it seems to be taking fewer clicks to get things done.  It’s really nice that you can now customize the look on the front page of the admin area.  So I’ll be sure to put everything in just the right spot for me which will mean something as I plan to be more active on our blog. Read More