Secured Hosting for Your Website

If you’re doing business on the internet, secure hosting is an absolute necessity. There are so many security threats in today’s online world and so much personal information stored online, for that security is not an option.

When you are looking for a web hosting company for your website, here are a few things to keep in mind regarding security:

First, ask the hosting company whether a cage structure has been put into place on the server. A cage structure gives each website on the server complete privacy from all the others. None of the sites can interfere with another, or with the underlying server.

Ask your host whether unproven code is permitted on the server. The better hosts do not allow unproven code to be installed on the server, in case it compromises security for other sites on the same system.

Find out what kind of maintenance and upgrade schedule the host uses, to plug new security holes and keep the system as secure as possible, operating system and server software updates should be installed on a regular basis.

Security audits should also be done regularly. Good hosting companies will audit their own systems to ensure that they are secure and hackers are not able to bypass the security.

The server should be behind heavy-duty firewalls – much more than the “consumer grade” firewall that most people run on their own computers. These firewalls will also prevent other websites on the server from initiating attacks.