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It appears my email count is way down compared to usual. Ideas? EDIT: Never mind, there it is. If that was Hawkhost, thanks for getting my Spam flow back up and running. Dunno what I'd do with my usual crap....

Lightning appears to be in decent shape right now. Just added some new Email Filter rules to CPanel which were always my "canary" that things were slow, as for some reason when Lightning was slow Email filters took forever in CPanel. Non Sequitor but: 200 keyword filters on my email and the Spammers still get about 100 emails through per day....the cat and mouse game continues.

Was over at the Server and Network status board a few above here, and noticed, nothing since November 2012. Have you guys gotten lazy posting outages? Or has there truly been no major outage worthy of posting since Nov 2012? Which is probably a record for any shared host...from my observation the latter might actually be the case (I haven't noticed anything).

Agreed, in all reality, no shared environment should host this monster. Did Brian mention Hawkhost has excellent VPS plans? Run anything you want (within some limits) if you can set it up!

A GB of RAM for a Forum Package? Jeez... Put it this way the answer is no if you're on my server :-p

I had a thought, if my ISP catches on to that one as well, I'll just get a VPS from you guys just to spite Comcast, set up my own mail server and play "Port Whack-A-Mole" with my ISP

Hey guys, yesterday noticed I couldn't send email anymore using Thunderbird setup for IMAP, after trying on a different connection (Laptop IMAP at work) and succeeding I'm guessing my ISP decided to block something recently. A quick check of the Xfinity/Comcast website revealed nothing helpful about what they were doing so I'm wondering if HawkHost can be more helpful. Has Hawkhost seen Comcast do anything funny with ports lately? Any ideas for workarounds? Thanks!

To quote Inigo Montoya "I do not think it is as easy as you think it is as easy as" :-/ Edit to Add: Hey if you think it's easy, create it yourself, I betcha this has good commercial potential if it can be pulled off right.

Well when you were broken into, you should have asked Hawkhost to "reset" you (I've never asked but I'm sure they could put you back to fresh from the factory configuration), then restored a backup that occurred prior to break-in. Trying to recover piecemeal is a lousy idea in any circumstance granted even with fingerprints you might miss something. Also I don't know the depth of the tampering. While it isn't likely that the server's been compromised, you just never know. Store your own fingerprints if you were to use such a tool and don't rely on server stored fingerprints.

Not a bad idea...but where would you store the fingerprint, on the already hacked server? Hmmm everything looks ok here... You could also do it yourself to some extent, take a SHA-1 Hash of everything going up. This is actually more ideal now that I think of it, because if the server is hacked, in theory CPanel and whatever was storing the SHA-1 could be compromised too... EDIT: Also any fast moving/dynamic content (database stuff, etc.) will be a pain in the butt to fingerprint all the time...

Hey guys was trying to upgrade MediaWiki via Softaculous just now and was getting a message "unable to upgrade, PHP version 5.3.2 required". What version(s) of PHP are available right now, or any other ideas? Thanks!

Well it appears the Spammers have smartened up to SpamAssassin with a vengeance now on my end. With the majority of my Spam going right past their filters. I thought about trying to lower the SpamAssassin threshold, but my concern here is I may bust too many innocent emails. What kinds of things have you folks tried to knock the Spam Count down within SpamAssassin these days?

A year almost now with Hakwhost, and I have to say the best support department is the one I've never had to contact No mission critical postings, only one ticket to change a billing plan and a couple of inquisitive forum posts and rants about stuff HawkHost couldn't do anything about anyways (I think HawkHost was more helpful about GoDaddy stuffs than GoDaddy was themselves). If only the rest of the Internet ran as good

Was just looking at your Dallas 40% special and couldn't help but think, notwithstanding any specific requirements (aka being closest to my home Cable Modem for speed, targeting customers in Singapore, etc.), which DataCenter is the best for overall Internet connectivity (or the one I should pick for a non-geographic targeted site)? I would think the Dallas one (and that's where I'm at anyways) but I'm curious about what others do. Thanks!

Bots swarming everywhere with their gibberish, time to consider extra measures?

How about just tips on Web Development, etc. too? Little anecdotes your team learns and cares to share. Or just tips on life in general, my blog generally focuses on SharePoint (http://www.codesweep.com for the curious), but once in a while you get an off the wall post like "How to shop for Auto Insurance"...

Humorous anecdotes working at your company, c'mon all IT companies got some good ones! Who was the lousiest employee and what did he do, the most horrid day that you can reflect on but laugh at today, etc....which (anonymous) end user gave you the worst support call, etc...

+1, with all the grief I get dealing with updates that did more harm than good (I do a lot of windows/SharePoint development and Microsoft is great at releasing half baked stuff for SharePoint lately), I appreciate Hawhost waiting until the update has proven itself after a few weeks.

Question/Suggestion/Maybe I missed it somewhere in the WHM/reseller discussion already. Can I resell the Semi-Dedicated accounts? Conform to your plans and work on the same semi-dedicated servers as yourselves maybe? Probably more of an affiliate relationship when I do that but just curious if that's possible. Thanks!

Heh, if my experience moving codesweep.com was any indication the consequences for a botched move on Hawkhost.com could be a disaster if a similar stunt were pulled. My advice would be to leave it alone unless Godaddy screws you over bad enough to where it's worth it :-)

Though I must say I get a chuckle out of this --- WHOIS Data for Hawkhost.com: Registrant: Hawk Host Inc. 710 Tower St. South PO Box 50081 Fergus, Ontario N1M 2R0 Canada Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: HAWKHOST.COM Created on: 26-Jan-06 Expires on: 26-Jan-17 Last Updated on: 27-Dec-11 Administrative Contact: Baird, Tony [email protected] Hawk Host Inc. 710 Tower St. South PO Box 50081 Fergus, Ontario N1M 2R0 Canada +1.8008598803 Technical Contact: Baird, Tony [email protected] Hawk Host Inc. 710 Tower St. South PO Box 50081 Fergus, Ontario N1M 2R0 Canada +1.8008598803 Domain servers in listed order: DNS9.HAWKHOST.COM DNS10.HAWKHOST.COM DNS11.HAWKHOST.COM ---

Definitely a thought, but a few things will have to happen first before you get to be registrar: 1) Stick around another year or 2...I don't have a problem integrating host and registrar, but registrars in particular need to be mature companies. 2) Do you offer a privacy service similar to GoDaddy's DomainsByProxy service? Don't like my personal details listed in WHOIS if at all possible...

So I've had a Domain name hosted at Hawkhost, codesweep.com for some time now. Though the registrar was Namesecure.com. I decide that for Registrar GoDaddy was cheaper and codesweep.com was up for renewal soon, so let's transfer over there. No problem, I gather up all the pertinent info and am told in a few days Namesecure will release to GoDaddy. So I just get home from a late night at the office, and check my email, nothing is working....hmmm...is it HawkHost, My Internet Provider (Comcast), or something else...this was answered really quickly when I tried visiting www.codesweep.com and got the GoDaddy parking page instead of my Blog...WTF?? I'm POSITIVE I told GoDaddy to keep my nameservers at Hawkhost the same...how long was my email down? How many people were bouncing back? Hopefully not too many...well a quick swap of the nameservers will slowly fix that but still.... Anyways not much Hawkhost could have done about that, but had to get it off my chest....outta curiousity whom else do people use for registrars around here?

Yeah priority should always be given, such as when I was at the hospital with a broken finger I let the guy with obvious heart attack symptoms go by me first even though the nurse was willing to bandage me up first (true story!). I'd just feel icky if someone acted on my "change my billing plan" ticket if a server were down :-)

So let's benchmark, how long does it take for Hawkhost to respond to a low priority, this can wait a month until it matters so enjoy your holiday weekend and get back to me Tuesday ticket to change my billing plan to an annual plan, when the renewal date is a month out? 47 minutes... With some hosts and "mission critical" tickets I should be so lucky...definitely encouraging if I ever had such a ticket...and I haven't yet.