Easter cleaning – how to keep your website safe

And who takes care of our website? He too deserves our attention, he must always be clean, tidy and above all free from viruses and malware that often infect thousands of websites, causing their reputation to drop.

The spread of CMS to create websites like Joomla! and WordPress have allowed a dizzying growth of the web.

However, they are copies of the same software spread across millions of websites, this means that when there is a security flaw, before the owners of the websites update the software, it is available to malicious hackers to carry out illegal acts.

How do I know if my website is compromised? At Host we have been asking ourselves this question for a long time and we wanted to create a tool, called Security&Reputation Manager, that could give us an answer, or rather, could give it to our customers, automatically and continuously.

In fact, every 24 hours, 365 days a year, the tool performs an accurate scan of each website hosted on Host.it, looking for viruses and malware on the pages.

In addition, check that the website is not present in the top 10 web blacklists, such as Google Safe Browsing.

Therefore, the double control guarantees your website to always be under control and to be able to intervene in a very short time.

An infected website included in the blacklists begins to lose positioning on the search engines within a few days, with incalculable economic losses.

I hope I have given you useful information for your Easter cleaning, er, for managing your website.