HawkHost review and Hawkhost hosting buying guide

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This entry is part 1 of 6 in the Using Hosting at Hawk Host series

What is your hosting criteria?

Let me guess: 

Has high stability without minor errors. Especially optimized with WordPress.

Uptime is high so the website is always ready to serve customers.

Fast speed for best user experience. At the same time, a website with a fast speed has the ability to rank in Google search results. 

The price is affordable within the allowable budget. ​

I bet: ​

Everyone when choosing a hosting provider is looking forward to the above, right?​

Considering the above criteria, I suggest you refer to  Hawk Host . 

HawkHost is a reputable and stable leading foreign hosting provider today

In fact, as far as I know, many domestic consumers are using HawkHost’s shared host service. 

In today’s article I will demonstrate that you should put your website on HawkHost’s shared host. Until now, I have not regretted paying for hosting at HawkHost. 

And you are worried that the process of registering for a foreign hosting service like HawkHost will be confusing. 

No need to worry!

At the end of the article, I will guide you how to register for a hosting service here.

The registration process is very simple. You do not have to be verified like many other foreign hosting services.

Read more : 3 “quality” foreign host providers today. 

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HawkHost review: cheap fast speed

When using hosting services abroad, you are worried that the access speed in Vietnam will be slow?

Obviously, geographical distance is what will have a big impact on the speed of web access. Most of the servers of foreign providers are located in the US.

However, there are also a few hosting providers that have servers located in Singapore, so the speed of access from within the country improves somewhat.

Not only has a location in Singapore, Hawk Host is also a rare foreign hosting provider with a server in Hong Kong.

As you know, the access speed from Hong Kong to Vietnam is very fast. Location Hong Kong is also a location with high stability when cable breaks occur. Because between Vietnam and Hong Kong there is a cable connection on the mainland. 

Many people choose HawkHost for this very reason. With HawkHost you can have peace of mind registering a foreign hosting service for your Vietnamese website. The speed is not inferior to domestic hosts. 

Some features of Hawk Host

  • Actual uptime is as high as committed up to 99.9%.
  • Hosting packages all use SSD hard drives for fast download speeds
  • You can choose 2 hosting packages for shared host service: Primary and Professional. Both of these packages are not limited to bandwidth, database and number of installed websites. Particularly for the Primary package, you are limited to 10G hard drive space.
  • If you are not satisfied, you can request a refund within 30 days.
  • cPanel supports easy one-click WordPress installation.
  • cPanel has a built-in Let’s Encrypt SSL . ( See details )
  • cPanel has a built-in automatic daily backup application  (R1Soft Backup) that makes it easy to restore data in case of unexpected.
  • Free migrating website from old host to HawkHost
  • cPanel with Memcached and Redis Cache support

One point worth noting:

After buying hosting and using it, you can still change the location. For example, when buying hosting, you choose the location as Singapore. But then you decide to switch to the Hong Kong location.

Simply open the ticket. It’s done.

Website acceleration features

I know: 

Website speed is always one of your biggest concerns. When you choose a hosting service you always want your website to be as fast as possible. 

Of course there are many factors that affect the speed of a website. In which hosting is an important factor. 

With HongKong location, it is understandable that HawkHost provides fast access speed from within the country. 

But don’t stop at this point: 

Hosting here has many features to help speed up your website a lot. Unlike other hosting providers, these features Hawk Host has favored in all of its hosting packages.

First, about the web server software:

1. LiteSpeed ​​webserver for outstanding speed Apache web server. 

Hawk Host uses  LiteSpeed ​​Enterpris e instead of Apache server, a very popular software used as a web server used by most hosting services today.

So how is LiteSpeed ​​Server different from Apache Server?

As far as speed is concerned, LiteSpeed ​​delivers 900% faster rendering of static content and 50% faster processing of PHP requests than Apache . In case you use SSL for your website, LiteSpeed ​​is still 3 times faster than Apache.

When using the LiteSpeed ​​Cache plugin, you will have the most effective website acceleration solution available today. ​

You should know that:

LiteSpeed ​​Cache plugin has become the best cache and acceleration plugin available today. But this plugin currently only works with LiteSpeed ​​web server. And HawkHost is the provider using this web server. 

2. Supports HTTP/2 protocol to handle multiple requests simultaneously

One point I also want to mention is that the LightSpeed ​​web server supports HTTP/2. This protocol also helps to improve website speed. 

Important is:

HawkHost offers a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. So you just need to install the SSL certificate in cPanel and your website already has HTTP/2.

3. Support Memory Cache system to speed up data query

Next, Hawkhost supports two popular memory cache systems today, Memcached  and Redis . 

This feature definitely improves the speed for a website that needs to query the database as much as an e-commerce site.

This is due to the way the system caches data in RAM.

4. Upgrade to the latest PHP version

And one last point worth noting is that HawkHost’s cPanel allows you  to switch to PHP 7 .

Unlike other providers, HawkHost always supports the latest PHP version. At the time of writing this is PHP version 7.1.

Switching to the latest PHP version is also a way to improve page load speed. 

Speed ​​test results for foreign blogs I use HawkHost. Because of the foreign blog, I chose the Los Angeles location. The results are for reference only. 

lookwp speed test results

Uptime as high as 99.9% commitment

Uptime is always an issue with many domestic hosting services. Many providers regularly their hosting service reaches 99.9% standard.

But when actually used, the website often downtime.

I have used HawkHost for over a year and found that the service here has very good uptime. Shared Host rarely has downtime. Because I measured with UptimeRobot, I can’t publicize the parameters.

I have just switched to using updown.io to measure uptime. You can check uptime HERE. 

Rate the capacity of the Primay HawkHost package

Many of you wonder how many requests the shared host here takes. In other words you want to refer to the load capacity of the shared host. 

So I used the tool https://loader.io and performed the test with the number of clients per second. After doing many tests, found: 

The Primary package is capable of withstanding an average of  1400 clients per second for about 1 minute of testing . In order for the number of client tests to be higher, the timeout starts. 

HawkHost hosting price

So in terms of speed and stability, HawkHost completely meets your demanding needs.

So what about the price?

I understand that:

Hosting cost is always your biggest concern besides service quality factors.

Regarding the price, HawkHost currently has a very competitive price in the current hosting market. If you find a hosting service with a lower price tag, the real quality of the service can be questioned. ​

Here are the pricing details: ​

For example, if you buy the Primary plan for 2 years, you only have to pay $2.99 ​​a month.

And if you use the 30% off code  during checkout, you end up spending a little more than $2/month.

That means you only spend about 50k/month for a fast and stable hosting service.  

Of course you can use the 40% off code for even more discount.

But this code only applies the discount for the first time. When you renew you are no longer entitled to the offer.

Therefore, I recommend you to use the 30% discount code.

In addition, Primary and Pro packages only differ in capacity. With a capacity of 10GB of Primary, I find it too much for general needs.

That’s why I recommend choosing the Primary + package using a 30% discount code. This is the most economical solution .

Don’t forget that:

The service here has a refund mode. So you can rest assured to register for a year or more. If you are not satisfied within the first month, feel free to ask for a refund.

But I bet you’ll never have to. Because the shared hosting service here is very delicious. ​

Instructions to buy a hosting package at Hawk Host

Before you start buying hosting here, you should choose the Hong Kong location for the best speed to Vietnam. If you do an English site, choose Los Angeles.

Now, you go to Hawkhost.com choose the appropriate hosting package and click the  SIGN UP NOW button

Go to HawkHost
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On the next screen, you will be asked to choose a domain name.

You choose the 3rd option – I will use my existing domain and update my nameservers .

It means you will manually  point the domain to hosting . (You should not buy a domain with hosting service because the domain price will be very high. Instead, buying a domain at NameCheap will have a better price). 

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The next step, you choose the time to buy hosting and location.

Of course, the longer you sign up, the more you save, especially when you use a discount code.

Once done, click Continue to continue.

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Now you will move to the  Review & Checkout step .

Here, you can still change the registration time and datacenter by clicking Edit.

Enter the discount code in the Apply Promo Code box . (This is a Black Friday 2016 discount code, so it’s new)

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Finally, you click the  Checkout button to go to the payment page.

On the payment page, enter your personal information and choose an appropriate payment method. I recommend that you choose to pay by Paypal. 

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After you complete the payment, you can go to  https://my.hawkhost.com/clientarea.php page . Log in using the password and username you created above. 

After successfully logging in, select Services -> My Services.

In the Dashboard screen, you will see the hosting package you purchased in the  Pending state (pending approval).

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Activating your account can take up to several hours. 

It is best to open a ticket to notify the sales team.

That way they can make it faster for you to activate your account. 

Once the account has been activated you will receive an email from Hawk Host with the subject ” New Account Information “.

You should save the information in the email because it contains important information to help you use the hosting service here.

So the hosting registration process at HawkHost is not confusing, right?

Epilogue

HawkHost is a famous hosting brand in Vietnam market. 

Like everyone else, I choose HawkHost because of its simplicity: fast speed, high uptime, cheap price, less affected by cable breaks.

These are the features that convince you to choose HawkHost:

  • Use LiteSpeed ​​Server for superior speed compared to Apache
  • Memcached and Redis support reduces database query times. You can hardly find any Shared Host service that supports such Memory Cache system
  • Daily backups with R1 Soft reduce the fear of losing important data
  • Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Certificate Integration
  • Allows upgrading to the latest PHP version to improve website speed. 
  • Cheap price, you only spend approximately 2$/month to have quality hosting service using SSD hard drive

Come here if you still have questions related to HawkHost’s shared host service, leave your concerns in the comments below. 

As a customer using the service of Shared Host HawkHost plus a deep understanding of the hosting service here, I confidently answer all your questions. ​


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