Secure Hosting
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Importance of security
There are many possible outcomes to insecure computers. Here are a few possible outcomes of bad security:
- Web site is down
- Web site is taken over and replaced with other content
- a link to the competitor
- embarrassing material
- illegal material
- Customer/Client data is stolen
Our Security
Unfortunately, we can't say everything we do for security as that in itself would be exposing our servers. One important aspect of security if to hide your security methods to make it harder to be hacked.
We have compiled a few of our security tricks just to show you that we are serious about security.
All administration is encrypted
All our system administration can only be done over encrypted connections. This ensure that no one can capture our highly secure/complex passwords.
File uploads are encrypted
All our file uploads are done using SFTP (encrypted). This also protects your password to ensure that a hacker can't log into your account to make changes to your web site or worse copy your data.
No default configuration
We do not use any default configurations. We reconfigure everything from scratch to ensure there are no weak points in our system configuration.
Only what's required
Our systems do not run any unneeded software. The more software that is running on your computer, the more potential security weak points. So our servers only run the required minimum software. This also doubles as a way to speed up our servers.
Linux tweaks
We also tweak our Operating System to eliminate all potential security holes.
Default deny
We assume that unless otherwise noted, everything should be denied. Only the required is allowed. This policy applies to our firewall and other software.
Secret
The above mentioned security points are actually very basic security settings that we believe all hosts should implement without any second thought. However, this is unfortunately not the case.
We actually take security far beyond what was listed here, but we feel more comfortable keeping that a secret so that you can feel more comfortable knowing your site is secure.
