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Welcome to one another informative post on shared hosting security. Safe information provided from safe place is a precise remake of well known saying “information is wealth”. Love it or hate it shared hosting has some unique challenges on information security.

In our constant endeavor to improve web hosting security,  we have been implementing safe solutions like publications on shared hosting security, security audits, email hosting and web hosting from distinct servers to safe guard our customer hosting environment.

Some more hosting tips to protect your shared hosting environments are,

• Never Leave your passwords(Cpanel or FTP account info) in Your FTP clients. Do not save ftp passwords in your html editors like dream weaver, Expression web, Frontpage etc.
• Never use pirated software for your FTP

In view of security Anything occupied by more than one leads to complexity, Shared hosting is one such complex environment. A well designed place to park your web contents “Hosting” is the origin for many security threads around WWW (World Wide Web).  A common storage/hardware used by number of users. Service provider responsibility is to provide safe shared hosting environment in both physical, and systems front. Web site owners also equally responsible to mange their allocated space and services through their web site.

Few points to improve shared hosting Security

• Operating System – unless other wise very demanding do not go for Windows hosting. A well known fact billion dollar anti virus business is based on not so protected Windows environment
• Do not use