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Today, it is very common for businesses, companies, projects, etc. to have their own website. This is because online presence is very necessary.
Most people, before buying a product or hiring a service, investigate it online. This is mainly done to see how developed the business is and how much confidence it inspires. Many people decide to look for other options when they find that the business they had selected has no website or social networks.
As digital presence is so common and necessary, nowadays making a website is much more accessible than before. The mutation of the market led to several platforms where you can create a website in minutes. This does not mean that you never need a developer to program a website. But it does mean that, at least to begin with, you don't need that much investment. In addition to these platforms, the offer of providers of the services needed to have an online site grew considerably.
Remember that, in order to create a website and keep it accessible in the online world, you need a hosting and a web domain. The domain is the web address of your site. It plays the role of a physical address. That is, it is the way that navigators find a web. It plays an important role because it is part of the identity of a brand.
As for hosting, it is the service that stores your website. This can be difficult to understand at first. However, it is necessary to be very clear about the concept in order to understand why it is so important that it is reliable and safe.
A web hosting, as we mentioned earlier, is a storage service for your site to be available online. That is, the site is hosted on servers (these can be physical or virtual) that allow it to be online. It is necessary to find a secure Web Hosting, provided by a trusted provider.
Now, taking up the title question, there is so much offer on the market that it is not strange to encounter a hosting that is not secure. That is, there are many services that have the highest number of security vulnerabilities. This is because they do not have all the necessary protective measures.
In order to distinguish between services that provide greater security, you should consider that they have firewalls and backups (if you can automate them, even better since you don't risk forgetting). At the same time, they should ideally have double access verification, IP blockers and protection for hot links or direct links.
A very important resource is that the hosting service has a malware tracking tool and blocking it. This means that if any malware or viruses are detected, it inhibits it and sends a notification for action.
Perhaps, at first, you think that it is unlikely that someone wants to attack your website and steal the data you host on the hosting you hired. That is why we think it is necessary to mention that the most common and simple attacks are precisely on the people who least expect it. Taking care of the security of your site should be important to protect your business, you and, above all, your customers.
If you don't have a secure and trusted hosting service, your site can have a number of consequences that will hurt you:
#1 will be more vulnerable to hackers. Hackers know how to distinguish a place that is very easy to enter. This makes you more at risk than those who take extra measures.
#2 The data you store can fall into the wrong hands and harm your customers. This is even more worrying when it comes to financial information (such as credit cards or bank accounts).
#3 It's much easier for malware to install on your site and don't find out until it's late.
#4 You can lose all the information with the accounts. Today, information is as valuable as money, so it can take a long time to recover it.
#5 An unsafe site can harm your SEO positioning. You probably didn't expect it, but it's real. If your site is not secure, your position in search engines will be much lower.
Despite all the benefits that the internet provides, it is still a widely used means to commit fraud and scams. Cyberattacks are more common than people want to believe. This is why, as a website owner, you need to take all necessary measures to protect the information you handle. At the same time, it is important that you consider that, in case of being hacked and not being able to recover the site, you will lose all the work time you spent creating it.
You can avoid many headaches, with the right choice of a web hosting. Security is a very important factor for your site to thrive without harming anyone.