#website hosting

Every once in a while, I'd receive text messages or emails from bloggers and website owners asking for advice whenever their site is hacked. Being a blogger myself running dozens of sites and also a web hosting provider, hacking/cracking and other exploits are not new to me. Imagine your server or website is like a house. In order to fully understand this, let me point out some of the more common ways hackers can gain access to your website or server. A lot of government websites have been hacked in the past because their webmasters are so fond of installing the forum script phpBB yet do not update them for months or even years. Regularly check the folders and files in your hosting account see if they have the correct write permissions (usually CHMOD 644 or 755). All hosting provider, big or small, will have encountered such incidents at one time or another. A huge percentage of a defaced websites are caused by old, un-updated or vulnerable scripts. Read more in our articles including "Google Domains expected to shut down as Squarespace takes over" and "Site Hacking and Contingency Plans".