Secure Hosting

If you're doing business on the internet, secure hosting is an absolute necessity. There are so many security threats in today's online world - and so much personal information stored online - that security is not an option.

When you are looking for a web hosting company for your web site, here are a few things to keep in mind regarding security. First, ask the hosting company whether a cage structure has been put into place on the server.

A cage structure gives each website on the server complete privacy from all the others. None of the sites can interfere with another, or with the underlying server.

Ask your host whether unproven code is permitted on the server. The better hosts do not allow unproven code to be installed on the server, in case it compromises security for other sites on the same system.

Find out what kind of maintenance and upgrade schedule the host uses. Operating system and server software updates should be installed on a regular basis, to plug new security holes and keep the system as secure as possible.