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  Recently, those who hacked Dublin’s transportation system website demanded a ransom. Events such as that show how important security is in web hosting. Whether you host websites for several businesses of varying sizes, or own a passion project site, you should prioritize web security. Having proper security in place means safeguarding not just your data but also your customers, visitors and clients. Here, we will discuss a few of the practices regarded as the most effective for hosting security. With these points, you can ask the appropriate questions when seeking the best dedicated hosting , shared hosting or VPS service providers. Access Restriction The service providers should restrict access to the machines in their infrastructure. That access should be kept specifically for authorized and trained technicians. We would recommend using SSH or a similar protocol to sign in to the webserver. Password-protected keys based on the RSA algorithm may also be utilized as an additi...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are among the most prevalent types of cyber threats, which even hobby hackers can implement. Over the years, the threats have evolved from volumetric attacks, meant to make websites offline, into more malicious and complex issues. That said, we should question the part that web hosts play in making the threat less severe. That mitigation is up to all web hosts, including shared server hosting service providers, and internet providers. Without effective DDoS protection or mitigation in its services, a web host may deliver possibly harmful and useless traffic across its customer networks. When folks decline to pay a public utility for the contaminated water it offers, why do several companies pay for a comparable situation in their web hosting and other services? An issue with web traffic is that customers cannot correctly visualize the whole traffic that flows across their networks. Analyzing that much traffic is too significant a task for staf...