This security article should serve as general purpose and would not go into too technical detail on how to protect your hostmonster account. This safety tips works for all web hosting plan generally and can be apply to other than hostmonster hosting. Here are few of the simple steps that can help protect your hostmonster hosted website from getting hack!
- Use strong password for your hostmonster cpanel, email account, ftp account, MySQL database admin login, and other. Make sure you use character, number, upper lower case, symbol etc.
- If you are using open source PHP scripts like wordpress, keep them updated always!
- Don’t install PHP scripts that you are not sure about. It can be not fully tested, or not being supported any longer, or it can be with bugs that create opportunity for hacker to get in.
Its simple as that, three simple things you need to do to keep your website safe from hacker, at least that is what you can do. And even after that, if your website get hack or hacked again, make sure you get it clean.. we mean totally remove your web files from server, and reinstall or upload again the php content from your local backup drive. Hostmonster support might be able to help, but securing own website is own responsibility. Its the same at every shared web hosting, or even VPS hosting or dedicated server hosting. Internet hosting provider won’t count responsibility for website hosted being hacked
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On three months ago, i write a review article title “hostmonster support quality compromised”.. and it can be found here. After the month of poor service uptime that had been caused by massive server upgrading works by both bluehost and hostmonster servers. And this hostmonster hosted website had been effected as well.
Now, its 3 months after the server upgrade. What do we get?
Clearly from the recent 2 months of hostmonster uptime statistic and monitoring, it clearly shown that hostmonster uptime had reached above 99.9% and giving a very good server response time. The server is responding in 0.2 second in average.
Hostmonster support team had done a great job in bringing the servers back to running stat in short time. And delivering a better performance servers which is more reliable and giving better service uptime as well. The server hardware and software upgrade had proven itself.
We also noted that Hostmonster is using 100% US based support, UTAH. And this proven they didn’t outsource to oversea. They also include live chat system and toll-free number for you to reach them for free. This is a powerful hosting plan with superior support.
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Is it true that Hostmonster support quality had been compromise? if you are one of the Hostmonster customer, you might found out that in the past few days, they are more service downtime than ever. in hostmonster forum site, you can find lots of new discussion about hostmonster downtime and customers website not available. Another main problem that is rising is they are more customer complaining their website being hacked and HTML codes granted into their index.html and other webpages.
Even my website is receiving more downtime than before, this really concerned me. I have looked into this issue quite seriously, and hope to find a good answer to all this. The past 19 months hosting experience with hostmonster is great, it’s never been this bad before. I had contact hostmonster support through live chat, and finally I understood that hostmonster hosting is undergoing server upgrade, which involve hardware replacement and subject to service downtime. They are group of hostmonster support team dedicated to perform this server upgrade task, hence I believe they are too busy with the upgrading works.
For the concern of Hostmonster website being hacked, Hostmonster user shall implement a strong account login and password combination, if you found your cPanel password or FTP password is weak, do change them immediately. Another tips is used down make sure your website scripts/html files are using the most updated version, make sure you update them from time to time. For example, if you are using WordPress script, do make sure it’s using the latest version of 2.6.2. Outdated script are usually having security hole and highly vulnerable to hackers attack.
