We have seen that millions of websites are being a victim of attack every year. The attack is more visible in open source packages such as WordPress, Joomla, Magento , Drupal etc. This does not mean that other products are secure. Apart from these, almost every website is being attacked. We have seen that customers with reputed websites where credit card transactions happen daily were attacked and classified as phishing sites. The result is that every customer/visitor comes to the website is blocked by the browser or the Antivirus program on the computer. It was a shock to the website owner as they lost huge money as a result.

Website owners normally develop their website by a developer or a company; but do not think about the security until they face the issue. Let’s say your website is hacked/attacked. The impacts are unpredictable:
You are losing your customers all of a sudden. Once a website is hacked, customers will not be interested to visit again unless it’s something they need.

• You are losing your customers all of a sudden. Once a website is hacked, customers will not be interested to visit again unless it’s something they need.
• Your customers’ information is stolen. Yes, this includes the saved credit card information as well. I think now we understand it well.
• Then search engines such as Google will block your website being listed in their search pages.
• Antivirus/firewall installed on the users’ computer will block your website.
• Page ranking goes down
• Your overall reputation is badly affected.
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What can we do to prevent this up to an extent?

1) Secure your website by analyzing and fixing bugs.
Well, this is not an easy method. Finding a loophole is difficult, it’s very difficult. You will need to spend a good amount of money and time on this. Still, it does not prevent it completely. We recommend doing a quick analysis on your website and apply any possible patches so that we can reduce the impact.

2) Web Application Firewall
Technologies are growing every day and new findings and solutions give us better control of security. Web application firewall is a security mechanism placed between your DNS server and the web server. This prevents anyone from the internet directly accessing the website. Every request first comes to the WAF and it will process the request, reject bad requests and route the good to the web server.

Adding a WAF to secure your website does not require any modification in your code or application. You will need to point your domain to the IP address of the WAF. The WAF will route good traffic to your remote web server. Apart from the security, it improves the performance by built-in caching and CDN feature.

FAQs

How much does it cost?
When you purchase it as a stand-alone package, it costs you monthly $50 (Maximum) to protect a website. When you purchase it along with other hosting product the price will go down. There is no setup fee for this.

What should you do?
Once you purchase, we will do everything for you.

How much time is required?
It requires 10 minutes only. But, if you are opting for free SSL certificate, it may take a couple of hours to activate the certificate.

Is there any downtime?
No, there is zero downtime in the normal case.

Can I add more websites?
Each website requires separate subscriptions

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