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    • QualityHosting
      QualityHosting last edited by

      Wordpress operates on PHP.  If someone wants to hack or website, it is the hosting companies job to limit them but its your job to make sure all of your passwords are considered strong passwords

      First thing i would recommend is to make sure all passwords to any admin area are changed.

      Read the article Gyi suggested http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

      For these reasons I have recently launched my own web hosting company because I want to offer the most secure environment for my customers.

      If you need any help or have any questions with your wordpress securing, PM me and I would be happy to assist you.

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      • mattotoole
        mattotoole last edited by

        I use Bluehost a lot.  They're a great value for a basic (shared) hosting package, with good support.  No complaints.

        I'll second what EGOL says if you have more than a few thousand users per day.  In that case you'd probably want to go to a CDN.

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        • hillierre
          hillierre last edited by

          GoDaddy is horrible and they are not as helpful when help is needed for changes, fixes with site.

          HostGator is awesome for hosting and customer service. I can be on the road, call in and they fix it immediately for me. Godaddy's response --- "Sorry, we are not allowed to do that for you."

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          • mattotoole
            mattotoole @hillierre last edited by

            GoDaddy's cheap accounts are hosted on Windows, and you have no access to the server to do 301 redirects, etc.  There's also some kind of caching so changes might not "take" immediately.  Overall it's a real pain, and not Wordpress-friendly at all.

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            • Web-Designer-Dubai
              Web-Designer-Dubai @Dan-Petrovic last edited by

              Well, I don't believe even Amazon will help much about it. There are certain vulnerabilities inherited with Wordpress, php that helps hackers to intrude. And when you add extensions, it adds.

              I suggest you get proper penetration testing, and remove those vulnerabilities. And you can run your blog on any reasonable shared host without any issue.

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              • Web-Designer-Dubai
                Web-Designer-Dubai last edited by

                Wordpress and PHP both have inherited vulnerabilities that help intruders. And When you add extensions, it adds. For Security, only Host can not do any thing.

                Either, you make a penetration testing from some reasonable security company, and you will get save from 99% of amateur attacks.

                Or make your Wordpress installation always updated, and use as less extensions as possible.

                Its better to use some backup plugin, and keep on taking daily automatic backups. So In any such case you can instanlty bring your site back to life.

                I am using http://me.wisnetsol.com for last 3 years, and never get hacked.

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                • JohnW-UK
                  JohnW-UK @Web-Designer-Dubai last edited by

                  What sort of penetration testing? Any suggestions for places to do this?

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                  • MaximAssure
                    MaximAssure last edited by

                    HI Christine

                    Even i have many issue with godaddy and so as with hostgator, lately i am able to find a data center in India named as CTRLS,

                    these guys are very focused on just one business that's hosting, nowdays i am having 3 VPS with them, its little costly, but definately worth every penny i have spent.

                    just google for them 🙂

                    ** Please note i am not trying to promote them by any means NOR receiving any benefits from them ******

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                    • DD9
                      DD9 last edited by

                      WPengine is by far the best host for Wordpress in 2012

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                      • MeanGiant
                        MeanGiant @alholliman last edited by

                        I just moved my sites from Hostgator to Media Temple...I saw an increase in search traffic w/ in days of the move for what it's worth.

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                        • BenRWoodard
                          BenRWoodard last edited by

                          My vote goes to WPEngine as well. Great people there.

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                          • aj613
                            aj613 last edited by

                            Have been very disappointed with Bluehost.  LOTS of downtime in the last 6 months.

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