Shared Hosting vs VPS: How safe is your website
Hi All Recently I setup the ISOC Canada WordPress site at a Shared Hosting website due to price but upon research and discussion with Joly and others I discovered that Shared hosting opens your site to potential hacking. Research revealed that the site is shared with 3,500 others. Here is some research on the risk http://www.epicwinhosting.com/blog/is-shared-hosting-secure/ *Question: Is it worth the difference?* Secondly, Upon discussion with the hosting company they don't have a VPS service to upgrade the account. Thirdly When I did a WHOIS on the name this was the first thing I found. No response yet from the hosting company, Ticketed the item with their support on this issue as well. Almost feel hostage. Name FastDomain Inc. (R1455-LROR) StatusADDPERIOD, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, TRANSFER PROHIBITED Fourth In conversation with Joly he recommeded a VPS site called GANDI for more secure hosting https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/ Also I found gatorhosting.com as well Glenn Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn@gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight Http://www.globalcatalysts.com http://newsocialmedia.wordpress.com
You can also use services like rackspace, amazon and others that will allow you to own your own server and do anything you want to do there. -ed On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi All
Recently I setup the ISOC Canada WordPress site at a Shared Hosting website due to price but upon research and discussion with Joly and others I discovered that Shared hosting opens your site to potential hacking. Research revealed that the site is shared with 3,500 others. Here is some research on the risk http://www.epicwinhosting.com/blog/is-shared-hosting-secure/
*Question: Is it worth the difference?*
Secondly, Upon discussion with the hosting company they don't have a VPS service to upgrade the account.
Thirdly When I did a WHOIS on the name this was the first thing I found. No response yet from the hosting company, Ticketed the item with their support on this issue as well. Almost feel hostage.
Name FastDomain Inc. (R1455-LROR) StatusADDPERIOD, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, TRANSFER PROHIBITED Fourth In conversation with Joly he recommeded a VPS site called GANDI for more secure hosting https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/ Also I found gatorhosting.com as well
Glenn
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Using low cost hosting is to be avoid due to security issues and/or attacks that - will - take place. Would recommend instead getting a domain name and then configuring the DNS entries so that site can be hosted via Google sites or blogspot - which is free. Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rguerra@privaterra.org On 2013-02-06, at 7:52 AM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
Hi All
Recently I setup the ISOC Canada WordPress site at a Shared Hosting website due to price but upon research and discussion with Joly and others I discovered that Shared hosting opens your site to potential hacking. Research revealed that the site is shared with 3,500 others. Here is some research on the risk http://www.epicwinhosting.com/blog/is-shared-hosting-secure/
*Question: Is it worth the difference?*
Secondly, Upon discussion with the hosting company they don't have a VPS service to upgrade the account.
Thirdly When I did a WHOIS on the name this was the first thing I found. No response yet from the hosting company, Ticketed the item with their support on this issue as well. Almost feel hostage.
Name FastDomain Inc. (R1455-LROR) StatusADDPERIOD, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, TRANSFER PROHIBITED Fourth In conversation with Joly he recommeded a VPS site called GANDI for more secure hosting https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/ Also I found gatorhosting.com as well
Glenn
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There is a similar discussion going in the NCUC right now. There is consensus there that http://gandi.net is a good cheap VPS provider. j On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org> wrote:
Using low cost hosting is to be avoid due to security issues and/or attacks that - will - take place.
Would recommend instead getting a domain name and then configuring the DNS entries so that site can be hosted via Google sites or blogspot - which is free.
Robert
-- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rguerra@privaterra.org
On 2013-02-06, at 7:52 AM, Glenn McKnight wrote:
Hi All
Recently I setup the ISOC Canada WordPress site at a Shared Hosting website due to price but upon research and discussion with Joly and others I discovered that Shared hosting opens your site to potential hacking. Research revealed that the site is shared with 3,500 others. Here is some research on the risk http://www.epicwinhosting.com/blog/is-shared-hosting-secure/
*Question: Is it worth the difference?*
Secondly, Upon discussion with the hosting company they don't have a VPS service to upgrade the account.
Thirdly When I did a WHOIS on the name this was the first thing I found. No response yet from the hosting company, Ticketed the item with their support on this issue as well. Almost feel hostage.
Name FastDomain Inc. (R1455-LROR) StatusADDPERIOD, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, TRANSFER PROHIBITED Fourth In conversation with Joly he recommeded a VPS site called GANDI for more secure hosting https://www.gandi.net/domain/buy/result/ Also I found gatorhosting.com as well
Glenn
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There is a similar discussion going in the NCUC right now. There is consensus there that http://gandi.net is a good cheap VPS provider.
They're quite competent and their prices, if not rock bottom, are reasonable. They're in France, by the way. I have a VPS provider I like in the US, I haven't looked at ones in Canada, but a little googlage turns up a lot of them. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
It does say on Gandis's site one has a choice of a Europe or a US location. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:59 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
There is a similar discussion going in the NCUC right now. There is consensus there that http://gandi.net is a good cheap VPS provider.
They're quite competent and their prices, if not rock bottom, are reasonable.
They're in France, by the way. I have a VPS provider I like in the US, I haven't looked at ones in Canada, but a little googlage turns up a lot of them.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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