Don't forget security
Saturday November 15, 2008
One of the things people often forget when deciding what hosting provider to choose is security. Security is a critical part of the hosting system - if their system is not secure, then your website won't be secure. And it can be hard enough to protect your site from your own mistakes without having to worry about the security of your host. And before you scoff, even I have been the victim of security breaches, both of my own cause (d'oh!) and from my hosting provider. And security breaches can be hard to clean up, even if they are caught within moments of the break in. The site WebHostingRating.com has a great article on Must-Have Security Features you should look for in your Web hosting provider.
Comments
Yes, very true… I would add safe PHP (and other server-side languages ) configuration defaults, or letting the user modify them… for example “register globals” - I am on a host that has it enabled, period (free hosting package, but I suppose they don’t give the controls to the paying customers either), and I run a PHP script in the beginning of each request to reverse the effects of it… (Even phpBB3 didn’t want to install with it on, and I had to hack my way through the installation… not a good thing to do)