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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October 27th, 2010 at 2:50 am
tips: not to give password to anyone