Hawk Host Blog

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.

Our 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!

Summer 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!

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.