Website Security

If your website has been infected with malicious content, you should clean your website files as soon as possible to prevent further damage to your hosting account. Firstly, it is recommended to completely disable your site and allow access only … Continued

As one of the best and most preferred hosting providers on the market, we know how important security is for our customers. This is why server security is one of our top priorities. Here is just a small part of … Continued

PCI is an abbreviation for Payment Card Industry. The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a security initiative created to offer service providers and merchants a unified approach towards safeguarding credit card holder information for all types of credit cards, … Continued

In order to block all bots from accessing your site, you should create a robots.txt file with the following content: User-agent: * Disallow: / To block all bots from accessing a specific folder, you should create a robots.txt file with the following content: 1 2 User–agent: … Continued

In order to protect your account from HTTP TRACE request attacks, you can add this to your .htaccess file: 1 2 3 RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE RewriteRule .* – [F] You can modify the .htaccess file using File Manager in cPanel. For more … Continued

Make sure your local computer is safe. For this purpose use reliable updated antivirus software such as: Norton Internet Security, offering Antivirus, Antispyware, Two-way firewall, Antiphishing, etc. or Kaspersky Internet Security, offering Integrated protection from all Internet threats, such as … Continued

Yes, XonHost offer various means of DDOS protection and here are some of its key features: A hardware firewall filtering flooding traffic. A local software firewall based on iptables with more complex functions and traffic monitoring. All services have a … Continued

The most common reasons for a website to be compromised are: Outdated web application. Many updates for a web application (Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, etc) include several security patches and it is very important to always keep your application updated to … Continued

During a targeted attack towards your website it is common that malicious bots will access your web site attempting to gain access via brute force for example. This in turn will commonly result in multiple script executions and will greatly … Continued

Brute-force is a method of guessing your password by trying combinations of letters, numbers and symbols. Some brute-force attacks utilize dictionaries of commonly used passwords, words, etc. in order to speed up the process of guessing users passwords. The first … Continued