Secure browsing and peace of mind for your visitors. Increase your sales, protect visitors’ personal information, and encourage confidence in your business with an SSL certificate. Free or stronger certificates verified by GlobalSign can be purchased.
- Easy set up
- Increase website sales
- Improved search engine rankings
- Establish trust and authority
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Our servers are Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliant. This means that our hosting servers are certified to be safe for online stores taking card payments, and the undergo regular audits. PCI standards are enforced through a group of major credit and debit card companies.
- Malware scanning
- DDoS protection
- Email security
- Web application firewall
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An SSL certificate is displayed for websites in the form of a padlock icon in the address bar and a URL that starts with https://. Behind the scenes, this means that the website has been verified and any information passed between the server and a visitor’s web browser is securely encrypted. An SSL connection is vital for any website that requests or stores personal information such as contact details or payment information.
Having an SSL certificate has other advantages, too. It’s used by Google as a signal of the site’s ‘quality’. So by having one, you’ll have an advantage in the search results over websites that don’t.
Our SSL certificates are ‘wildcard’, meaning that they cover subdomains too: like blog.yoursite.com, for example.
SSL is the globally recognised standard for secure data encryption between server and browser. All our SSL certificates are provided and verified by leading security experts GeoTrust.
An SSL certificate not only signals trust and authority to your website visitors, it also helps protect them when browsing your website. It prevents data interception and shows your business has been validated, ensuring complete peace of mind for your visitors.
Search engines such as Google have openly stated that they view an SSL certificate as a mark of trust and that having one can directly improve your search engine rankings.
Furthermore, research has shown that a valid SSL certificate reduces abandoned baskets, increases sales, and makes people more confident about shopping with you. It’s a must-have when you’re selling online.
To purchase and use an SSL certificate, your website also needs to be hosted with us. Our powerful, bespoke hosting platform has been designed for you by experts with over twenty years’ industry experience. We provide you with unbeatable load-balanced cloud hosting, meaning there’s no single point of failure and your website performance will never be affected by other users’ websites, visitors or activity. All servers have SSD storage as standard.
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Frequently asked questions
Security
Our data centres are fully secure and are ISO27001:2013 certified. Their security features include:
- Redundant power supplies so that your site stays online
- Gated access with photo ID and swipe card entry
- 24/7 security, with CCTV inside and out
Our servers are Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliant. This means that our hosting servers are certified to be safe for online stores taking card payments, and the undergo regular audits.
PCI standards are enforced through a group of major credit and debit card companies, like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.
Having malware on your site can be disastrous. It can compromise your security, leading to fraud or identity theft. It can harm your reputation and performance in the search engines.
Your website will be checked for malware daily, with our Malware Scanning service. If any malware is found, we’ll let you know and give you advice on how to remove it. You can also scan on demand, so once you’ve made changes, you can check that it’s been resolved.
As WordPress is so popular, it’s a popular target for criminal hackers. So we offer a WordPress checksum test. This checks the version of core WordPress stored in their repository against the one installed on our servers. We’ll notify you if there are differences between the official core version and yours, which could suggest that malware has been added.
Are you sure that you have the correct permissions on your website files? If you don’t have the right permissions, someone might be able to access or change your data. Our file permissions checker will monitor your permissions and make suggestions on what to change if it spots any potential problems.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are usually what has happened when it’s reported that a website has been ‘taken down by hackers’. It involves flooding a server with fake requests, as if millions of new people are visiting the site. This will prevent genuine users from accessing the site.
Our DDoS protection will filter-out DDoS attacks. It can handle attacks of over 1 terabit per second, so even the largest attacks will be mitigated.
Emails can be a security risk, so we scan incoming emails for viruses and similar malware, blocking them before they reach your inbox.
Spam is controlled by being filtered through anti-spam deny lists and content checkers. You’re given full control to allow certain emails from domains that might otherwise go straight in to your junk mail.
Emails also have another layer of security through DKIM authentication, protecting you and those you send emails to against impersonation. Our servers have a great reputation, so your mail will never have problems being delivered.
Criminals might try to look for vulnerabilities in your applications: like your database, for example. Our web application firewall will help protect you by scanning for attempts to hack your site. It will look for attacks involving trojans, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, path traversal and other ways to gain access to your files. We use both commercial tools and bespoke rules written by ourselves.
One of the most common ways for websites to be compromised is through cybercriminals knowing your password. To help protect you, you have the opportunity to set up two-factor authentication on your hosting control panel, so you get an extra level of security on login. It involves using a code on your mobile device.
We also allow you to password-protect certain areas of your website. Our strong password generator will help you create difficult-to-guess passwords and you can lock FTP behind a password.
Another avenue of attack is by ‘brute force’: using software to try multiple variants of common and short passwords in an attempt to guess the correct one. We have systems in place that will detect automated attempts at brute forcing passwords through trial and error, and use Google reCAPTCHA to detect genuine users.
If you wish to block certain visitors from your website, you can. You can prevent whole countries getting to your website, or block by individual IP addresses. You can use simple rules like ‘allow all, except’ or ‘block all, except’.
If there’s ever a security issue with your website, it’s wise to have a recent backup to fall back on. You can make manual backups or use our automatic backup service.
