Dear Customers,

In a previous article dedicated to guaranteed security, we touched upon all the features and functionalities implemented on our servers that help you maintain a secure web presence.

Now we review in greater detail the security tools on our platform that you can use to customize the level of protection on your site according to your particular needs.

All of these security tools are intuitively integrated into the Web Hosting Control Panel.

ModSecurity

This is a very effective anti-hack firewall, which is activated on all our servers. It has been configured to automatically prevent all common URL forgery or “brute force” attacks and forum spamming attempts targeted at your website and applications. By default, ModSecurity is enabled for all hosts within your account. However, you can control its behaviour from the ModSecurity section of the Control Panel. You can select if you want the firewall to either be working in detect mode only, i.e. to only detect all potential inbound threats without taking action, or even disable it completely.

‘ModSecurity’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

Outgoing Connections

To prevent sensitive data from leaking off your site to an external host, we have disabled all outgoing connections from the hosting account by default. However, you can take full control of the outbound traffic on the Outgoing Connections section of the Control Panel. With a click of the mouse, you can disable the restriction on outgoing connections or only allow external connections for certain IP addresses.

‘Outgoing Connections’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

IP Blocking

The IP Blocking tool allows you to prevent malicious users or scripts from attacking your sites by blocking the IP address they are coming from. With a click of the mouse, you can deny a specific IP address access to your site or to a section of your website. You can even block an entire range of IP addresses, since a hacker might use a dynamic IP from a certain network to attack your site.

'IP Blocking’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

Password Protected Areas

The Password Protection Areas tool allows you to easily protect a specific folder of your hosting account, i.e. a directory on your site, with a username and a password. This way, when a visitor tries to open a protected folder or a file located inside the folder, a pop-up window will come up asking for the username and password that have been set by you.

‘Password Protection Areas’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

Hotlink Protection

With the Hotlink Protection tool, you can easily prevent other websites from stealing your traffic resources by directly linking to files and images on your sites.

You can forbid hotlinking either for the whole domain name or for a specific folder, for instance – an image gallery folder like my-domain-name/gallery/.

‘Hotlink Protection’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

.htaccess Generator

This multi-functional tool allows you to shield your website contents by password-protecting certain folders, by enabling hotlink protection, by blocking different IP addresses from accessing your website, etc.

The ‘.htaccess Generator’ is located in the Advanced section of the Control Panel.

Extra protection services:

Apart from the security services included by default with each hosting package, you can also take advantage of some optional services such as:

Whois Protection

You can easily enable Whois privacy protection for your domains to hide your personal or business information, which is publicly available by default.

SSL certificates

A SSL certificate is a must-have security attribute for any e-commerce site. It encrypts and protects all the sensitive information submitted onto a site (login form details, credit card information, etc.) and serves as a solid proof of a site’s reliability. We offer two types of SSL certificates – standard and wildcard, at good wholesale prices. Recently, we have made SSLs even more affordable by allowing you to tie a SSL certificate to a shared IP address for free (* the shared ip address is free, not the certificate).

Both tools can be found in the ‘My Domains’ section of the Control Panel.

These are all tools and features that you can make use of to tweak the level of protection we have implemented on our servers depending on your particular security requirements.

Kind Regards,
Web Hosting team