Monthly Archives: June 2008

Random Links Of the Day

Well I’m bored so I figured I’d throw up some random links people have sent me today. Poking along in the left lane? Prepare to pay Maybe this rule should be everywhere?  There’s always someone in the left lane who … Continue reading

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R1Soft Backups + Subversion and Trac + More

We have a lot of things comes down the pipe line this week which are very exciting.  The first big one is we’re moving away from our own backup system onto using R1Soft CDP solution.  What this means is we’ll … Continue reading

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Smokey The Bear Failed Me!

Every year during the summer fires break out all over, there’s news coverage and newspapers covering the fire(s), but this one is different. It’s affecting me (and all the people who live within 100~ miles..)! It all started a few … Continue reading

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Why Digital Point Hosts Fail

First of all the title was just to catch every ones attention it’s not strictly digital point based hosts, but for the most part they are the most guilty of doing what I am going to talk about.  So it … Continue reading

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Inefficient Backup System

At Hawk Host we use a combination of the standard cPanel system, but using the script BMU to handle doing our backups.  The system is setup to do a certain percentage of backups per day so over the course of … Continue reading

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PostgreSQL Popularity?

We’ve had PostgreSQL feature for over 2 months now and I estimate we have just 1 customer actually making use of it.  I’m basing this off the fact one of our newer customers made a ticket about PostgreSQL being broken … Continue reading

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Cancellations Difficult?

Here at Hawk Host we’ve noticed the art of canceling a service you’re paying for is a forgotten art.  With the introduction if Paypal as a common payment method for many services such as web hosting users are not seeing … Continue reading

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Software Updates Are Never Fun

As a web host we’re expected to keep things stable, but at the same time introduce new features which means updating software.  This can be problematic as we do not actually develop any of the major software we use which … Continue reading

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New Stuff?

We try to keep up with the latest trends and services people want from us, but we’re careful not to jump into things too quickly. We want to offer a plethora of services – but we want to do it … Continue reading

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