Category Archives: General

O Canada — Our Home and Native Land

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Brian Farrell

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 … Continue reading →

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cPanel Theme Changes and Free Semi-Dedicated Hosting Upgrades

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Brian Farrell

We’re in a good mood this week it seems, as this is our second free upgrade for our customers in less than a week. Five days ago, we doubled the bandwidth limit for all reseller plans at no cost to … Continue reading →

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Moving to PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brian Farrell

As of this announcement, all of our servers are now running PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 as the default versions. Up until this point (and for a number of years), we were running PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.1 as default, … Continue reading →

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Resellers Rejoice: Free Bandwidth Upgrades On The House

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Congratulations, Hawk Host resellers. You’re getting a free upgrade on your bandwidth quota. We’re doubling the limits for each reseller plan, and it won’t cost you a dime. This upgrade applies to any reseller customer on our bronze, silver, gold, … Continue reading →

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Back To The Basics: Shared web hosting, Reseller web hosting, Semi-Dedicated web hosting and VPS Hosting

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Sometimes its easy to take for granted that every customer coming your way knows all about the Internet. In reality, this is hardly the case. Your average person doesn’t know what bandwidth is or why they need it, what cPanel … Continue reading →

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Introducing our PHP Selector and PHP 5.5: The Choice is Yours

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Brian Farrell

A long time ago, we realized that offering just one PHP version (at the time, 5.2.X) was not going to last forever. As the release of PHP 5.3.X quickly approached, we needed to find a solution to let our customers … Continue reading →

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How to Have a Safe and Secure Hosting Experience

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Brian Farrell

One of the growing trends (perhaps the largest) we’re seeing in the shared hosting industry is the number of account compromises as a result of lax security by website owners. As a host we implement a number of technologies to … Continue reading →

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Introducing CageFS – A Quick Overview

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Being in a cage doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. In fact, we’re about to put all of our users in one. Figuratively, of course. We’re working on rolling out CageFS, a technology developed and created by the … Continue reading →

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Hawk Host and HostJury: A 72 Hour Shared Hosting Special

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Time to get excited folks, our first big promotion of 2013 is here. We’ve partnered up with HostJury (http://hostjury.com), one of the industries largest and most trusted review sites, to run a promotion for 72 hours starting Wednesday, February 27th … Continue reading →

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Lightning Fast SSD Caching & Web Hosting

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Tony Baird

In the past 12 months we’ve started deploying forms of solid state disk caching to help improve disk i/o performance on our systems.  It was first seen with the deployment of Facebook Flashcache on our virtual private servers and semi … Continue reading →

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