Hawk Host Blog

Happy 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!

We’re incredibly happy to say we’ve continued our official sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt for another year! This is our fourth consecutive year sponsoring Let’s Encrypt, and for those of you not familiar with the name, Let’s Encrypt is the non-profit certificate authority that helps us secure all your websites for free. With over 200 million sites secured by Let’s Encrypt they’re making the internet a far safer place for all of us.

We’ve continued our sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt as we strongly believe in their mission and it’s important to us we support projects aiming to make the world a safer place for all of us online. As a hosting provider we can directly further that goal by providing all clients and their sites the ability to automatically, and without cost, receive an SSL certificate for any website hosted from our network. It doesn’t matter whether you’re running an e-commerce shop or just a casual blog for a small audience, keeping your visitors data encrypted whenever possible is a goal we should all aim for. Let’s Encrypt makes that possible and we’re happy to contribute to their efforts.

Similar to years past Let’s Encrypt has seen remarkable growth and adoption rates, securing over 200 million sites. As of February 2020 they’ve issued over ONE BILLION certificates. No, that’s not a typo. They continue to post public stats showing their growth with no sign of slowing down any time soon! In addition to the public stats there’s also an annual report which has some really cool insights, future goals, and even more detailed statistics about Let’s Encrypt usage. It’s worth a read if you’re even remotely curious and who knows what you may learn.

Everyone here at Hawk Host is extremely proud to continue this sponsorship and as always we thank the entire Let’s Encrypt team for their tireless work securing the web.

Los Angeles is joining our Dallas, New York City, and Singapore locations in offering cloud computes! These computes are your own private server environment with full root access, giving you full control to configure the compute however you need and the resources to run a site or application of any size!

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and impacts all of our daily lives we wanted to send a quick message to our clients ensuring you of our continued operations here at Hawk Host. While it is impossible to fully prepare for a situation of this magnitude we have built our business over the years to prepare for emergency scenarios to ensure continuity of your services with us.

We’ve been accepting Bitcoin since 2014 and since then the cryptocurrency phenomenon has exploded. Cryptocurrencies as a whole have become mainstream and they are no longer the projects of a niche community like they used to be. While Bitcoin is still the biggest name in the game, Ethereum isn’t far behind and its benefits are endless. That’s why we’re extremely happy to announce we’re now accepting Ethereum as a payment method for all services!