Why website security is important

Whatever device you use, attackers can still hack your site. Connecting to the internet is a two-way street. In some ways it is like wading into a vast Amazonian river. The water teems with life, and most of it co-exists peacefully in a busy marketplace of products and ideas. Some of it, however, is dangerous. Those parts constantly look for a new way to hook you into a scam and take your money.

Viruses and why you need to pay attention

A virus roams the internet and looks for weak spots in a website’s security. Once it finds one, it slips in destructive code that makes the site malfunction. For example, it might hijack your email and send fake messages to your customers.
Cleaning up afterwards is expensive. You usually have to pay a web techie to track the code down and then remove it. So security precautions are a bit like car insurance, with one difference: here, taking precautions actually lowers your risk. You may never need them. Still, changing passwords, installing anti-virus software and watching your analytics all make an attack far less likely.
A virus can also plant fake adverts on your site, often through the comments box. Suddenly, ads for Viagra and similar products show up on your pages. Understandably, that alarms your customers. Many will leave, block the site and never come back. Meanwhile, your Google ranking drops and people struggle to find you. In short, it is a PR nightmare.

A virus may also steal your customers’ data, including their passwords. That is a real danger when people reuse the same password on every site they join.
Sometimes a virus opens a gap in your defences and adds hidden pages from a third party. You may have no idea those pages exist. Worse still, they can contain material such as pornography or trafficking imagery, and you are legally liable for anything hosted on your site. In the worst cases, it is like someone taking over a room in your house to cook drugs.

How Tekwizard Keeps Your Website Safe

We don’t just talk about website security. Instead, we build it into every hosting plan. Every account gets a firewall that blocks common hacking attempts before they reach your site. On top of that, SPAM and virus filtering catches malicious emails and file uploads at the door. In plain terms, the firewall is a security guard checking traffic, and the filters are a trap for anything trying to sneak through.

Daily backups run automatically, and we keep them for up to two weeks. So if something does go wrong, we can roll your site back to a clean, working version, with no lost work. You can also take your own backups any time through cPanel and store them wherever you like.

For extra peace of mind, every hosting plan includes a free SSL certificate. It encrypts the connection between your visitors and your site. That is the padlock icon in the browser bar, and it also helps with Google rankings. Finally, security issues do not wait for business hours, so our 24/7 ticket system lets you reach us any time something looks off.

Good security is a shared job. Our infrastructure protects the server side. However, strong passwords and careful account management on your side matter just as much. For more on that, see our guide to managing passwords safely.