This is just a quick rant regarding people who insist on relying on RAID as their sole backup solution.
Yes, RAID provides a certain amount of protection via redundancy, which may help save you from a drive failure, but does not constitute a backup solution. Usually the RAID setup you have isn’t fool proof – it [...]

Most modern Linux distributions have the default scheduler as CFG for all block devices but we’ve found for us and from our reading many other web hosts are finding this to not be the best scheduler.  There are several schedulers available which you can read about here: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ .  The one we’re using now and [...]

We’ve finally decided to break down and setup a Twitter account for Hawk Host. Why? Well actually for several reasons! Besides allowing us to integrate with the new website to add a splash of “freshness” – it will allow you to keep up-to-date with recent happenings here at Hawk Host. Like what you might ask?

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It’s that time again for another wordpress release which in this case is just a maintenance release.  By the looks of things 2.7.1 does not include any major security fixes and primarly just for various bugs discovered in 2.7.  The upgrade process is pretty easy it’ll say at the top of your blog there is [...]

Zend Framework 1.7.4 was released on Monday and all our servers have once again been updated to have the latest version included in the library folder for php.  Not a whole lot to talk about here it’s a maintenance release to fix a few bugs.   Here’s a list of what was fixed in this version:

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The LiteSpeed 4.0 RC1 has been released which if things go as planned when we switched no one even noticed us switching to it.  Since we’ve started using LiteSpeed we’ve been using the 4.0 Beta’s as it had support for SSI which meant no dealing with Apache at all.  I personally reported numerous bugs to [...]