Our Websit Hacked - Long Story Short

[JSR]

Very true. The internet is a public place and as soon as you put anything "out there", there will be someone trying to hack it.

One of the common issues I've read about over the last year or two is when a website is hacked due to another website hosted on the same server. You can secure yours as much as you like, but if the server isn't protected well enough then a hack into someone else's website can affect everyone else's website that's hosted on the same server.

With more and more hosts cramming more and more sites onto the same server at lower and lower prices, it's only to be expected that these things could happen. A hacker could easily buy a hosting package on the same server as your website for the sole purpose of uploading scripts that can affect everyone else's website on the same server.

It's also important to ensure that whichever host you go with keeps their software updated. It's not good the host using an old version of PHP just because the new one might prevent a thousand websites on that server from working properly. That's not your problem, it's there's. You need to be able to keep everything up-to-date.

Going cheap isn't always prudent.