Secured Web Hosting - By: Chetanb

Choosing a Hosting solution and Hosting your site with them is a tricky job, many points to consider and look after. People generally look after what resources are available , disk space, domains etc , One of the main thing which should be taken care of is the security of the website or the web server.

You should check out what things are provided by the Web Host to secure your website. Given below are some of the important things that you should look for the security.

SSL: Many of the companies advertise SSL as included in the Hosting Package, however this is not completely true. You need to pay for the dedicated IP address and then the SSL certificate. You should be meticulous about this.

Anti -Dos : You should ask your Hosting provider whether he provide the Anti-Dos protection?. Almost all the hosting providers have a Anti-Dos protection for their servers. However it is not guaranteed that besides this protection your server will not be attacked. This will help you to understand the need of the security to the servers.

A good Control Panel : Control Panel is the master control of your site, it is a big factor in the secured web hosting. Your control should incorporate the security features. So you should check that the control panel provided is a cPanel and Plesk control panel.

Technical Support : In a situation of a chaos or a downtime, good support is what will you swim you out. In a secured web hosting support really counts a maximum. So better check the support for your secured hosting.

Isolation : In a shared hosting, you need to check the complete Isolation of the user accounts. Shortly saying User 1 should not be able to access the files of the User 2 on the same shared server.

In short you are the one who is going to check the security of your Website and important data on the web server. Its always better to check at the beginning. Security is also a big issue in the Reseller Hosting where people resell the package to other users on the same server. If you want to be a Reseller Web host, do check the security features provided by the parent web host.