Six years ago this week we officially launched our Los Angeles datacenter! The years have flown by and we’ve continued to grow since our initial launch. We started offering shared hosting, then expanded those services to include semi-dedicated hosting, reseller, and VPS, leading up to today where Los Angeles is a fully cloud based location offering a full suite of services!
Customers often ask what steps we take as a host to keep your websites and files safe. We value security at Hawk Host and it’s important clients know the proactive measures we’ve taken to defend against exploits and attacks, but also provide recommendations on steps you can take to further secure your hosting.
Continue readingOur team is very excited to announce we now have CloudLinux available as an option for your cloud compute operating system! CloudLinux was built with shared hosts in mind and gives you the ability to limit the resources allocated to each hosting account under your compute.
It’s official, Hong Kong has joined our ever growing list of cloud powered locations! Hong Kong is now our fifth cloud hosting location worldwide and our second in Asia, joining Singapore in that region. Not only is Hong Kong now cloud powered, that means we’re now able to offer semi-dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, and cloud compute plans with full root access!
We are happy to announce KernelCare live vulnerability patching is now available for all cloud compute plans! KernelCare allows you to patch your computes kernel on the fly without requiring a reboot, eliminating downtime and keeping your compute even more secure!
Continue readingSummer is officially here and so is our annual Summer sale! This year you can take advantage of these discounts and receive a 55% recurring discount on any new shared, cloud web hosting, semi-dedicated, or reseller order!
We’re happy to announce that on our shared, cloud web hosting, reseller and semi dedicated hosting plans we now support DNSSEC when using Hawk Host DNS/nameservers. cPanel has supported DNSSEC since cPanel 60 for individual server deployment but it was not supported until cPanel 80 on DNS clusters. Our team tested the implementation at the time and unfortunately found issues that required to be addressed before we could offer DNSSEC. We’re excited to say these issues were resolved with cPanel 88 which all our servers are now running.
Continue readingHappy Spring! After what felt like an impossibly long winter the nice weather is here and we’re celebrating by offering 55% off your new hosting order! We’ve got discounts for shared, cloud web hosting, semi-dedicated, and reseller plans, so whatever your needs we’ll find a way to save you some money!
Continue readingOur first European reseller plans have arrived! We’re extremely pleased to announce our Amsterdam location now offers reseller hosting! Our reseller plans have been available in our other US and Asia based locations for years now but this is our first time offering the services in Europe!
If you have logged into cPanel within the past several months you may have noticed a change in our backup solution. While R1Soft was a great product for us at the time it has shown it is not evolving in a manner appropriate for us as a provider or our end users. We had evaluated several solutions over the past year and had decided Acronis was the best solution going forward. We’ve been slowly building infrastructure and deploying it on servers and we can now say all our server are utilizing Acronis for their backup solution.
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