Category Archives: Security
Your website’s security can be just as important as its appearance and functionality, especially if you store any personal data, such as credit card details, email addresses, mailing addresses, etc. If you’ve ever been the victim of a hacker, then you know just how damaging and frustrating a security breach can be. Thankfully, there are lots of steps you can take to make your website significantly less vulnerable to hackers, and they don’t require a lot of technical knowledge.
When programming websites today you always have to worry about the security and many beginners just don’t know how to tackle this. I hope the following will help some of you out there.A very simple yet effective way of making sure that your POST data is secure is to include a security hash. This is far more simple then it sounds, follow the below example and I’m sure you’ll understand. The below goes in form.php/whatever.php <?PHP $key = ‘”‘.md5(“key”.date(“Ymd”).’”‘; ?> … Continue reading
Important security guide is enclosed, please read it. Only together can we keep your websites and our servers secure from hackers – please do your part today, in fact, now, it’s really important! Old scripts Remember that install of Joomla or WordPress you tried out a couple of months ago and never used? Please remove it, old installations are an open invitation to hackers. For any script you install on our servers you must at all times make sure it … Continue reading
Recently a few people asked us if there was a way they can automatically backup their site to another location. I’ve done some searching and found a script which will back up your website and FTP it to a location you choose. From here down is the PHP code for the script: // PHP script to allow periodic cPanel backups automatically, optionally to a remote FTP server. // This script contains passwords. KEEP ACCESS TO THIS FILE SECURE! (place it … Continue reading
Most web hosts don’t touch on this subject as downtime is our least favourite term in this industry and it puts off clients when they’re viewing the company site. You may have heard about the explosion at a data centre in Houston, lots of my favourite sites were knocked off line due to this such as b3ta.com and… erm… ok… I live on b3ta when I’m not replying tickets … Anyway, around 9,000 servers and who knows how many websites … Continue reading
