Secure hosting environments

Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal server architecture.

Why do websites get hacked? Websites get hacked for a bunch of different reasons:

Not 2 weeks after my newsletter calling out how people take for granted that nothing bad will happen to their web sites, two of the biggest providers went down yesterday, Amazon and Akamai, in several separate incide

It amazes me that still in 2011, the standard way web designers upload code to a server is FTP ("File transfer protocol"), a protocol that is completely insecure, easy to snoop, slow, hard to use, and often problematic through firewalls. There are many better ways.

Just the other day I got a request for proposal for hosting, complete with a statement that they knew of some hosting that would cost $15/month. The implication being that they were looking for a hosting proposal that would not exceed that amount.

Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.

A highly technical article that's a great how-to for setting up remote verification of file integrity from a central trusted server. Sys Admin > v15, i02: File Integrity Assessment via SSH

Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data. Bluetooth turns out to have a number of security flaws that allow people within range to access your private data, including calendar events and contacts.