We’re coming to you today with some unfortunate news: Cloudflare is officially ending support for its cPanel plugin. The good news is the removal of this plugin should have no impact on your sites that are powered through Cloudflare, and you’ll still be able to use Cloudflare’s free services, but you’ll need to take a few minutes to verify your account access before plugin support officially ends.
We’re back again this year with our annual holiday and Boxing Day sale! For the last 10 years we’ve hosted this sale and we’re happy to continue the tradition this year. We know Boxing Day isn’t a holiday everywhere, but as a proud Canadian company we invite you all to celebrate today with us! This years sale brings a 55% recurring discount on any new order of a cloud web hosting or semi-dedicated hosting plan!
We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 8.1 on all our shared, reseller and semi-dedicated and cloud web hosting services. PHP 8.1 is the latest 8.x series releases and comes with many outstanding improvements and new features.
Continue readingIt’s time for our 2021 Cyber Monday sales! This years sales include up to a 65% discount on a new shared or semi-dedicated hosting order with recurring discounts for all other services! This is your last chance of the year to take advantage of these great deals!
Continue readingOur 2021 Black Friday sales are officially LIVE! Use the coupons below to save up to 65% on your new cloud web hosting or semi-dedicated hosting plan. There are also great savings available for reseller and cloud compute plans! Take advantage now before it’s too late!
Another year brings us to another Black Friday sale here at Hawk Host. We’re happy to have you all back with us this year as we celebrate our biggest sale of the year. This year you can enjoy up to a 65% discount on a new shared or semi-dedicated hosting order, with discounts also available on our reseller and cloud compute plans as well! Don’t wait too long though as our one time 65% discounts will be available only for a limited quantity only during this sale!
At Hawk Host we’re always looking at opportunities to improve performance of our services while providing minimal to no impact on running services. This can mean performance improvements in software but also additional servers or entirely upgraded hardware. In Singapore we had an opportunity to do a major hardware upgrade.
Continue readingAlmaLinux today announced the introduction of their new feature ELevate which allows you to migrate between major versions of RHEL based distributions from 7.x to 8.x. This was previously not possible under CentOS and had came up during the CentOS 6.x end of life and in 2024 will come up again in the CentOS 7.x end of life. Until ELevate the only way to move to the latest version of RHEL based distributions was to deploy a new server with the desired version then configure and migrate everything to the new server.
How AlmaLinux ELevate accomplishes this feat is by utilizing Red Hat’s Leapp framework with a community created library and service for the migration set required for it. ELevate relies on the package evolution service (PES) which allows you to download, customize and submit new data sets for packages. This will allow maintainers and users alike make migrations smooth and easy. ELevate is currently under development and recommends you test your migration scenarios before attempting it. That being said let’s take a quick look at migrating a stock CentOS 7.x Hawk Host cloud compute to AlmaLinux 8.x
Continue readingAt Hawk Host we always value security and compatibility and with that we typically set the default PHP version to the oldest version that is still supported. PHP 7.3 is close to end of life status ( http://php.net/eol.php ) and many applications are now recommending users switch to PHP 7.4. ahead of this end of life. We thought this would be a great opportunity to move to PHP 7.4 before the holiday season starts.
Continue readingIf you run a website long enough, eventually you’re going to face an issue related to a DDOS attack. DDOS attacks can be frustrating, financially impactful, and make inexperienced webmasters feel hopeless when trying to resolve the problem. Companies like Cloudflare and Sucuri have made it easier for the average user to protect their sites from attacks, and while we do recommend our clients utilize those services to help protect their sites, we also saw a need to introduce our own DDOS protection for clients. As a result we are pleased to announce advanced DDOS protection is now available for customers on our shared, semi-dedicated, and cloud compute plans in our Dallas TX USA and Los Angeles CA USA locations!
