Welcome to one another informative post on shared hosting security. Safe information provided from safe place is a precise remake of well known saying “information is wealth”. Love it or hate it shared hosting has some unique challenges on information security.

In our constant endeavor to improve web hosting security,  we have been implementing safe solutions like publications on shared hosting security, security audits, email hosting and web hosting from distinct servers to safe guard our customer hosting environment.

Some more hosting tips to protect your shared hosting environments are,

• Never Leave your passwords(Cpanel or FTP account info) in Your FTP clients. Do not save ftp passwords in your html editors like dream weaver, Expression web, Frontpage etc.
• Never use pirated software for your FTP clients. If you can not afford a paid software like cuteftp, Use open source software such as filezilla, winscp etc.  Crack programs may steel your passwords and send it to Black hats.
• Make sure your Hosting provider used no-suid option to mount /tmp file system.
• Make sure your hosting provider scans the hosting servers for vulnerability, and implemented Brute force and Denial of service protection. Ask them security related questions like “How frequently you do vulnerability scan in your servers?”
• Change your Cpanel passwords at frequent intervals. Use complex passwords for cpanel users, ftp users and database users.
• In your webroot (public_html or www directory) do not have word writable permissions. ie: read,write and execute permission for all. Give grant all permissions for your database only when you require. Check with your hosting provider if they are using –skip-external-locking in MYSQL database.

Share hosting security should be an ongoing process. Look for more and more ways to protect your hosted online information. Share what you learn, let us built a safe hosting.

As pundit Chanakya said,

Keep an eye on your enemy’s movements, Always keep an eye on your own space

SAFE  HOSTING!