Web Hosting Cybersecurity Blogs

Web Hosting Cybersecurity Blogs

Cybersecurity challenges of web hosting can range from data theft to DDoS attacks. Hackers constantly devise new means of infiltrating hardware, software and networks; therefore it’s crucial for web Hosting providers to stay abreast of the most up-to-date protection techniques.

Hosting with a web host involves sharing server resources with other customers on the same physical server. While shared hosting may be cheaper, it also presents risks. If a single website on that server becomes infected with ransomware, all others could also be vulnerable.

A reliable web host should offer numerous safeguards to keep your site safe, including registrar locks to prevent domain transfers without your approval, renewal notifications so your domain doesn’t expire without being renewed and privacy services to mask contact details from spammers. Many also feature malware scanners which automatically scan all files and folders hosted sites to detect infections with harmful code.

Every Web Host connection should be secured with an encrypted cipher to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks and data eavesdropping, and provide tools to mitigate DDoS attacks – which can cause performance degradation or outages for all sites on a server if left unattended. These tools notify administrators, automatically detect & block attacks, display statistics to help identify vulnerable websites, notify administrators about new attacks that come in, notify if an attacker attempts to hack an email server, etc.