Brian

We've got some interesting blog posts coming up here shortly (more technical/nerdy ones) from some of our systems engineers and developers which I'm personally looking forward to reading. Being more of an operations/customer service guy myself, my posts tend to be more in the obscure, or what our company is up to, changes we're making to the business, etc.

I figured I'd open up the floor and see if there is anything you guys would like a "behind the scenes" post about? Obviously if your ideas involve revealing trade secrets or non-public information I'd not be able to write about that, but if you have an idea let me know and I'll see what I can do!

We've got some interesting blog posts coming up here shortly (more technical/nerdy ones) from some of our systems engineers and developers which I'm personally looking forward to reading. Being more of an operations/customer service guy myself, my posts tend to be more in the obscure, or what our company is up to, changes we're making to the business, etc.

I figured I'd open up the floor and see if there is anything you guys would like a "behind the scenes" post about? Obviously if your ideas involve revealing trade secrets or non-public information I'd not be able to write about that, but if you have an idea let me know and I'll see what I can do!

We've got some interesting blog posts coming up here shortly (more technical/nerdy ones) from some of our systems engineers and developers which I'm personally looking forward to reading. Being more of an operations/customer service guy myself, my posts tend to be more in the obscure, or what our company is up to, changes we're making to the business, etc.

I figured I'd open up the floor and see if there is anything you guys would like a "behind the scenes" post about? Obviously if your ideas involve revealing trade secrets or non-public information I'd not be able to write about that, but if you have an idea let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Anyone who doesn't follow/read our blog may have missed this, so I wanted to open a thread here.
 
For a breakdown of the plans we offer, the differences between them, and who should use what, this is a good place to start: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/08/back-to-the-basics-shared-reseller-semi-dedicated-and-vps-hosting/
 
The idea was to give new users or people setting up a site for the first time an idea of what the differences are between plans. Feedback is welcome

Very small change to our domain registration offerings, but we're now accepting 2 and 3 year registrations and renewals on the following domains:

.com
.net
.org
.info
.us
.biz
.name

Previously the longest term we offered was one year. Pricing for all these TLDs is $21.90 for 2 years and $32.85 for 3. We're also looking into offering some different domains, specifically .ca, com.au, .net.au, .me, and maybe a few others.

If there are any specific ones you guys would like offered / see value in, I'm all ears!

Anyone who has W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache installed on their Wordpress blogs should update the plugins immediately. A serious vulnerability has been discovered.
 
Read http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/04/update-wp-super-cache-and-w3tc-immediately-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-disclosed.html for more details.
 
If you believe you may be compromised, please contact our support department for assistance.

Good evening my Hawk Host friends
 
We've just finished rolling out some minor tweaks to our cPanel theme. Those changes included adding a server location, status page link, and speedtest link directly into the stats column in your cPanel account.
 
We've also added a free 10GB of space and 200GB of bandwidth to all semi-dedicated plans.
 
More details here: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/15/cpanel-theme-changes-and-free-semi-dedicated-hosting-upgrades/

I made an "official" post at http://forums.hawkhost.com/topic/2319-semi-dedicated-plans-now-available/ but since that forum doesn't permit comments/feedback, I wanted to open up a topic here to introduce our newest service, semi-dedicated hosting.

What do you guys think of the plans? Any feedback or suggestions you can make initially? These plans are brand new, we launched them maybe an hour before I made this post so we're very receptive to feedback and opinions right now.

Let us hear it

This should be possible, you'll just need to modify the relevant CNAME/A records in cPanel under the 'Advanced DNS Zone Editor'.
 
If you can't get this working just throw in a support ticket with the record(s) you need added and we'll get this going for you.

This server has had a kernel panic and as a result of the crash we're going to be running fsck on the /home, /var, and /usr partitions. This thread will be updated as we progress.

We will be updating the kernel on the Yoda VPS node to the latest version between 1:00am and 3:00am EDT.

The maintenance window is for 2 hours however the estimated downtime is 0 to 10 minutes.

Date: 06/06/2011
Start time (EDT): 06/06/2011 1:00am
End time (EDT): 06/06/2011 3:00am
Duration: 2 hours
Estimated Down Time: 0-10 minutes

I made an "official" post at http://forums.hawkhost.com/topic/2319-semi-dedicated-plans-now-available/ but since that forum doesn't permit comments/feedback, I wanted to open up a topic here to introduce our newest service, semi-dedicated hosting.

What do you guys think of the plans? Any feedback or suggestions you can make initially? These plans are brand new, we launched them maybe an hour before I made this post so we're very receptive to feedback and opinions right now.

Let us hear it

This maintenance applies to all shared, reseller, VPS and backup servers

Scheduled Maintenance - GLOBAL [06/25/2011-06/26/2011]
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011 (06/25/2011) and Sunday, June 26th, 2011 (06/26/2011)
Start Time: 12:00 AM EDT
End Time: 04:00 AM EDT
Services affected: Public / Private Network
Location: GLOBAL
Duration: 28 hours

Event summary:

Datacenter engineers will be performing global maintenance on their backbone. During this maintenance, engineers will be implementing a number of policy changes related to route announcement and accepting routes from providers and peers. This work is required to support continued growth within the network and future global expansion. This is a continuation of the maintenance window from June 18th - June 19th. Due to the scope of this change, the work has been scheduled across the following dates:

Saturday June 25th 12:00 - 04:00 AM EDT
Sunday June 26th 12:00 - 04:00 AM EDT

Customer impact:

While engineers expect no outage during this maintenance, customers may experience higher latency and/or packet loss while routes reconverge across the network.

Good evening my Hawk Host friends
 
We've just finished rolling out some minor tweaks to our cPanel theme. Those changes included adding a server location, status page link, and speedtest link directly into the stats column in your cPanel account.
 
We've also added a free 10GB of space and 200GB of bandwidth to all semi-dedicated plans.
 
More details here: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/15/cpanel-theme-changes-and-free-semi-dedicated-hosting-upgrades/

Anyone who has W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache installed on their Wordpress blogs should update the plugins immediately. A serious vulnerability has been discovered.
 
Read http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/04/update-wp-super-cache-and-w3tc-immediately-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-disclosed.html for more details.
 
If you believe you may be compromised, please contact our support department for assistance.

We've got some interesting blog posts coming up here shortly (more technical/nerdy ones) from some of our systems engineers and developers which I'm personally looking forward to reading. Being more of an operations/customer service guy myself, my posts tend to be more in the obscure, or what our company is up to, changes we're making to the business, etc.

I figured I'd open up the floor and see if there is anything you guys would like a "behind the scenes" post about? Obviously if your ideas involve revealing trade secrets or non-public information I'd not be able to write about that, but if you have an idea let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Good evening my Hawk Host friends
 
We've just finished rolling out some minor tweaks to our cPanel theme. Those changes included adding a server location, status page link, and speedtest link directly into the stats column in your cPanel account.
 
We've also added a free 10GB of space and 200GB of bandwidth to all semi-dedicated plans.
 
More details here: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/15/cpanel-theme-changes-and-free-semi-dedicated-hosting-upgrades/

We've got some interesting blog posts coming up here shortly (more technical/nerdy ones) from some of our systems engineers and developers which I'm personally looking forward to reading. Being more of an operations/customer service guy myself, my posts tend to be more in the obscure, or what our company is up to, changes we're making to the business, etc.

I figured I'd open up the floor and see if there is anything you guys would like a "behind the scenes" post about? Obviously if your ideas involve revealing trade secrets or non-public information I'd not be able to write about that, but if you have an idea let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Anyone who doesn't follow/read our blog may have missed this, so I wanted to open a thread here.
 
For a breakdown of the plans we offer, the differences between them, and who should use what, this is a good place to start: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/08/back-to-the-basics-shared-reseller-semi-dedicated-and-vps-hosting/
 
The idea was to give new users or people setting up a site for the first time an idea of what the differences are between plans. Feedback is welcome

I made an "official" post at http://forums.hawkhost.com/topic/2319-semi-dedicated-plans-now-available/ but since that forum doesn't permit comments/feedback, I wanted to open up a topic here to introduce our newest service, semi-dedicated hosting.

What do you guys think of the plans? Any feedback or suggestions you can make initially? These plans are brand new, we launched them maybe an hour before I made this post so we're very receptive to feedback and opinions right now.

Let us hear it

Due to filesystem inconsistencies we've been forced to bring Mars down and run a FSCK. We'll be posting updates as this progresses in this thread.

On Wednesday July 11th starting at 2PM CDT we will be taking the Mars server down to run a file system check due to some reported errors after reviewing system logs. We estimate the actual file system check will take less than an hour, however we've left the window open for 3 hours in the event we run into unexpected issues.

Date: 07/11/2012
Start time (CDT): 2:00PM
End time (CDT): 5:00PM
Duration: 3 hours
Estimated Down Time: 60 minutes or less

Throughout this window our support team will be available for any questions. They can be contacted via ticket at https://support.hawkhost.com.

We published this on our blog earlier today but I wanted to open a thread here as well to get your thoughts/feedback:

http://blog.hawkhost.com/2012/10/15/hawk-host-and-cancer-awareness/

In short we're going to be donating money to the American Cancer Society for every order we receive using coupon code beatcancer -- the amount donated depends on how much you save.

I'm hard pressed to think of a single person I know in my personal life who hasn't been impacted by cancer in one way or another. Everyone here at Hawk Host is determined to help make a difference, even beyond this initial fund raising event.

We hope everyone takes a few minutes and checks out the ACS website at http://www.cancer.org/ to see how you can help give back.

Very small change to our domain registration offerings, but we're now accepting 2 and 3 year registrations and renewals on the following domains:

.com
.net
.org
.info
.us
.biz
.name

Previously the longest term we offered was one year. Pricing for all these TLDs is $21.90 for 2 years and $32.85 for 3. We're also looking into offering some different domains, specifically .ca, com.au, .net.au, .me, and maybe a few others.

If there are any specific ones you guys would like offered / see value in, I'm all ears!

Good evening my Hawk Host friends
 
We've just finished rolling out some minor tweaks to our cPanel theme. Those changes included adding a server location, status page link, and speedtest link directly into the stats column in your cPanel account.
 
We've also added a free 10GB of space and 200GB of bandwidth to all semi-dedicated plans.
 
More details here: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/05/15/cpanel-theme-changes-and-free-semi-dedicated-hosting-upgrades/