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Old 09-17-2008, 06:50 PM
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* Small business site with Hawkhost - 6 month review

I've just passed the 6 month mark with Hawkhost this week. I signed up with a coupon that was floating around that made the deal hard to pass up.

I have a small business shopping cart based site that receives an average of 70 visitors/day which uses 40MB bandwidth/day or roughly 1GB/month. I'm on the standard package which currently gives me 3GB/month storage and 30GB/month bandwidth. It's not a large site by any means, but I need it to be up 24/7. I also have 4 domain add-ons, but they get very little traffic. FYI, I have my domains registered with godaddy.

The first week I opened a ticket requesting that ssh be enabled. My ticket was updated with a "we're on it" response after one minute, which appeared to be from an actual human, followed by a resolution 2 minutes after the ticket was opened.

Later the same day I submitted another ticket regarding setting up email in a particular email client - that was responded to and resolved in 5 minutes.

A month later I had an email bounce issue that I needed some help investigating. Two hours later it was responded to and resolved.

Since then I haven't had to contact support. I have a monitoring alert system to notify me of any downtime. It's alerted me one time in six months and by the time I sat down at the computer to check, my site was back up. With my previous host, it happened on what seemed like a bi-weekly basis.

I just referred somebody to sign up with hawkhost today - something I'd be worried about in the past with other hosts.

I have no complaints to speak of and it's tough to beat the price/reliability ratio. Keep up the good work!

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Old 09-17-2008, 07:46 PM
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That's a pretty detailed review there! Thank you for taking the time to share it, and keep us updated.

For the record, the OP's email address domain is hosted by Hawkhost, so the review passes validation.

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Old 09-18-2008, 02:46 AM
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You give me detailed views, I am glad to hear it, thanks.
And at the same time, thank you for your sharing.

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Old 09-18-2008, 02:56 AM
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Great review. Be sure to update us on this in another 6 months time.

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Old 09-18-2008, 07:06 AM
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awww shucks, another perfect review by another Hawhost Customer!
Good Work Hawkhost, All I seem to hear is great things about you

Thanks Mate, Keep us informed in the future.

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Old 09-18-2008, 08:00 AM
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Sharing your thoughts with every minute details should be surely appreciated. Thanks for your review. Come back with another after some time.

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Old 09-18-2008, 06:48 PM
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Good to hear you have had a great hosting experience thus far with us. I hope it continues to be that way.

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Old 09-18-2008, 09:21 PM
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It's good to hear another good review of Hawk Host.

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