Hawk Host Blog

Well here’s an early announcement that we now have our own Merchant account which means we’ll no longer be dealing with 3rd party credit card processors.  It’s just going to be a matter of setting everything up and we’ll be ready to accept credit card payments right from our site and also automatically charge credit cards each month.  So once that happens we’ll accept Paypal which will obviously still send you to the Paypal site but credit card handling will be handled on our site. Read More

One of the biggest issues with web servers is I/O due to the fact hard drives are the slowest component of computers. On standard Linux servers each time a file is accessed the OS writes to the drive the time it was accessed. This sort of thing may come in handy in the odd case but for the most part on a standard cPanel server this is unnecessary writing to the hard drive. This can be turned off by setting noatime in /etc/fstab. Read More

As some people may know there is a handy script within cPanel’s scripts folder which can install PostgreSQL, however it does not install the latest versions. It instead installs the vendor versions which on CentOS would be coming from yum. So this means for someone running CentOS4 they’ll get about 7.3 and for someone running CentOS5 they’ll get 8.1. Both of which aren’t the newest version 8.3.1. Read More

We’ve had a few inquiries about master reseller accounts and the question always is why do we not offer them? Well I figured it was time to shed some light on exactly why we’re never going to offer them. Read More

Well Tony pointed me to this Bugzilla ticket regarding cPanel integrating RoundCube Webmail into cPanel.. and my golly they finally did it. Read More

I don’t really have anything hosting related to talk about so I’m just going to rant about some things that really annoy me when I’m driving. Read More

Since it’s March Madness time it means we need to offer a crazy deal to be part of the madness! Read More

For a little while now Hawk Host has had the option of opening up a new location for hosting customers. Our provider this year is expanding out into multiple locations and bringing their tools to these locations. Our provider gives us the ability to manage all our servers without actually being physically there which a lot of providers cannot do at this point in time. So what I’m wondering is do any of our customers have any interest in having accounts hosted somewhere other than Dallas Texas? Read More

There hasn’t been a post on here since February 20th so I figured it was time to at least post something.  It’s been a pretty quiet few weeks around here nothing to exciting going on.  There was some network maintenance on March 3rd that went without any issues.  Previously to that on the 15th of February we patched a very serious kernel exploit on the Venus server.  We were lucky enough not to get exploited but a lot of larger hosts got hit by it before it was even known, so I guess we were lucky in that regards. Read More

We’ve been listening to everyone whether it be shared customers or resellers there has been many requests for a site builder.  We have finally made a decision on the software we will be using.  So within the next week expect to see RVSiteBuilder on all servers as well as an announcement on our forums about it.  We hope this will fill the need for a site builder at Hawk Host. Read More