Hawk Host and Bitcoin – Our cryptocurrency experiences
About a month ago we decided to start accepting Bitcoin for our services – this blog post will be outlining our experiences thus far and our initial thoughts. We just recently hit a total of 1 BTC...
View ArticleBitcoin Web Hosting Promo! — $5 Domains and 30% Off Your Hosting
We’re extremely happy to announce this is our first ever Bitcoin hosting sale! For a limited time, any customers (new or existing) who sign up and pay with Bitcoin will be eligible for a $5 domain name...
View ArticleWhat The New gTLDs Mean To You
If you were to ask a random person on the street for their favorite website, odds are the overwhelming majority would say something that ends in .com. Facebook.com, google.com, twitter.com,...
View Article10 Year Anniversary Sale – Up to 70% Off Shared Hosting Plans!
Hawk Host has officially hit double digits, and we’re now 10 years old. What started as a hobby way back in 2004 has now become a full time passion for our team across the world. We’ve grown from a...
View ArticleHappy Canada Day! Happy 4th of July! Save 60% On Your Hosting!
It’s a week full of holidays and celebrations here at Hawk Host. Last week we celebrated our 10 year anniversary, and this week we’re celebrating two holidays! As we’re a Canadian company we spent...
View ArticleIntroducing our Los Angeles Facility! And a Back-To-School Sale!
We’re quite happy to announce that our newest datacenter is now online and accepting orders! Right smack in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, this highly connected and extremely reliable facility...
View ArticleGet to Know Hawk Host – A Quick Q&A
Lately, a lot of folks have been asking questions along the lines of “What makes you different?” or “Why should I host with you?”. This made me think, maybe a quick Q&A of some basic facts about...
View ArticleBash Shell Shock (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169)
On Wednesday September 24th 2014 a vulnerability was revealed in the Bash shell interpreter which we run just like nearly every linux system online. Due to the news coverage this exploit (...
View ArticleSpamExperts By The Numbers
We partnered with SpamExperts in March to bring end users enterprise level spam filtering at a cost effective level. We currently include SpamExperts free of charge for all users. It’s just a matter...
View ArticleBlack Friday Web Hosting Deals 2014 – Same Great Hosting, Now With 80%...
Welcome back, friends! It’s once again that wonderful time of year where you get to sign up for our world class hosting at a fraction of the cost! Not only do this years Black Friday promotions bring...
View ArticleBoxing Day is Back! Close Out 2014 with Savings — Up to 80% Off!
The often overlooked but never forgotten Canadian holiday of Boxing day is back! Every year, Canada (well, not just Canada, but we’re Canadian so we’ll focus on us) has a big sale the day after...
View ArticleHawk Host in 2014 – The Year In Review
As improbable as it seems, 2014 is coming to a close and 2015 is upon us. It’s hard to believe we’ve seen another 365 days come and go but here we are, and at least for us at Hawk Host it’s safe to say...
View ArticleNew Feature! cPanel Integration For Your Client Area!
Up until today, any time you wanted to make a change to your hosting account (domains, databases, emails, etc) it had to be done directly through cPanel. This meant you needed to remember multiple...
View ArticleNew Website, New Adventures – Starting a Site 101
Anyone who has ever setup a website remembers how daunting their first experience was. Terms like ‘shared hosting’, ‘register a domain’, ‘nameservers’, and ‘cPanel’, which may now be in your regular...
View ArticleWe’re Bad at Pranks – 60% Flash Sale – Happy April Fools!
Admittedly we’ve never been very good at pranks. Sometimes it’s just more fun to watch everyone around you suffer from good-natured ploys at making the victim seem foolish. In light of our not-so April...
View ArticleNow Offering Reseller Hosting in Singapore
We’re very happy to announce we finally have our first international reseller location! You can now place an order for any of our reseller hosting plans in Singapore. You can find more details about...
View ArticleCustomer Service From a Customer Perspective
It’s no surprise that as a customer you rely on us to be the experts in the field of web hosting. That’s understandable for a number of reasons, primarily because you pay us good money to keep your...
View ArticleHTTP/2 & More Now Available at Hawk Host via Litespeed 5.0
We’re proud to announce it is now official we’re running Litespeed 5 on all our servers and will not be going back to an older version of the software. We’ve been testing 5.0 before its release and...
View ArticleNetwork Upgrades in Los Angeles Datacenter
For customers based in Asia and using our Los Angeles webhosting we have good news for you! We’re extremely happy to announce that our network provider in Los Angeles has reached an agreement with...
View ArticleSemi-Dedicated Hosting Plans Now Available in Washington DC
Thanks to your feedback and requests we’ve officially launched our semi-dedicated hosting packages in Washington DC! Meant for higher resource and higher traffic sites, our semi-dedicated plans are...
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