Hawk Host has been there for me from day one. They have taken care of my requests quickly and professionally. There uptime, pricing and most importantly customer service are excellent. I host multiple sites for clients and would recommend them to anyone searching for a new host.
We were originally founded in
December 2004 by Tony Baird and
Andrew Makridis after their
experiences with web hosts were less
than stellar for personal sites.
Using their knowledge in software
development and system
administration they officially
launched Devoted Host in March 2005.
In it's first year Devoted Host became a
recommended host for quality
reseller accounts used by SEO
experts and small web hosts looking
for reliable reseller hosting that
they could use without having to
worry about constant down time and
new features that were a year old by
the time they received them on their
account.
By the end of 2005 Devoted Host was
now hosting over 700 domains and was
continuing to expand the number of
shared and reseller accounts
available. Devoted Host was
now running Dual CPU servers with at
least 2GB of ram in both New Jersey
and Texas and had a fully functional
DNS cluster running in order to move
sites around in a matter of hours
without a user even noticing. While many other hosts require the
user to change information such as their name servers.
In the Summer of 2006 after having
several hosting servers in New
Jersey it had been decided due to
reliability issues in New Jersey to
make use of a very popular Texas
datacenter which would give us much
more control over servers.
By the end of July all New Jersey
based servers were now in Texas and
had received an upgrade to Dual AMD
Opteron 248's, opposed to the 242's
or dual 2.4ghz Intel Xeons used in
2005.
In December 2006 Andrew Makridis
role in the company had reduced due
to commitments to other business
ventures. By the end of
the year the remaining stock Makridis had
in the company was bought by Tony
Baird making Devoted Host being
under one ownership.
In April 2007 the decision was made
to finally consolidate all servers
into a tier IV datacenter in Texas.
By the end of April 2007 the
remaining servers housed in other
datacenters had been moved and
upgraded to Dual Opteron 248's with
4GB of ram.
On June 11th 2007 Devoted Host
officially became Hawk Host in a
move to rejuvenate the
company by adding
advanced dedicated services as well
as continuing to offer shared and reseller hosting accounts.
On October 16th 2007 Hawk Host officially became a corporation in Ontario Canada. Tony Baird was announced as the first
President and CEO of Hawk Host Inc.
