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When we were looking for a provider to manage our infrastructure our first criteria was security. Security that we pass along to our thousands of WordPress clients.

How would you like to play judge, jury, and executioner to billions of bytes of data every day? This image below is about 1/3 of 1 page of a multiple page security report from a single day on a single webserver node. Thousands of attempts blocked in a single day.

These nefarious netizens are the same bots and scripts that scan EVERY site on the internet looking for that hole or vulnerability to get in and ruin your site, and your day. Wonder how your site over at company X got hacked?  One of these bots scanned your site/files and found a hole and was able to insert its payload. Your $2.00/mo unlimited hosting company’s business model rely’s on mass scale and cheap infrastructure, there is no margin left for proper security.

Page.ly is proactive about security. Our Web Application Firewalls stops thousands of attempts daily before they even get a chance to get near the server. The Firewall appliances are out in front of our network so these bad guys get nailed long before our network even sees them. In addition to redundant Web Application firewalls, we also employ more traditional server firewalls, as well DDOS (Denial of Service Attacks) appliances out in front of our network.  Every single packet of every single web request is checked as it comes in and as it goes out filtering and stopping anything suspicious.

Real time file scanning on the actual servers keeps your site safe and sound as well. You have to do your part as well by choosing strong passwords and keeping your PC clean and virus free.

All these systems working together has kept the page.ly service free from the hacks and exploits that have seemed to plague so many others. Bottom line: If you care about your WordPress content, we want to secure it.