Few hosting security tips.
Here are few tips that will maximize secure your data on hosting. The promise of a reliability of your site, and possibly your business.
Keep you hosting login and password you provided in the registration process out of the reach for the other spot. If you using a public software (content management systems, forums) use the services of proven distributors.
Buy script and programs directly from the site producer. Newer use warez products, even for test purposes. First, you violate the license distributor, secondly, often in such products introduced trojan scripts. There are organized groups of hackers whose basic activity is the study of the most popular scripts with a view to identifying mistakes. For best site security update regullary all the programs wich use on you site. This allows you to get rid for found vulnerabilities, which are similar products. Use correct access rights for all files and directories, ask hosting support about site & hosting security tips.
Confidential data try to keep outside of web tree (out of the /public_html/). Separate scripts to manage your life, in a separate directory and block access to it, usinging the file .htaccess.
Never store password base as clear text. Never use too simple passwords. Make passwords composed of simple words. There is a huge dictionaries, which can be used to hack encrypted password.
Make a backup copy of the draft and download it from hosting to a local computer regullary. If someone take control on your site and, for example, removed all its contents, it will be very easy to restore the operation of all the projects if you was always ready for that…
Good luck!
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