Your Website, Protected
Hacked sites, lost sites and the plugin and hosting risks behind them, explained for business owners, with what to check this week.
Your website has brought in calls for years, and one morning it is gone, defaced or quietly sending visitors somewhere else. Attacks on the software that runs many small business sites happen every week, and most owners only learn their site was exposed after the damage is done. This topic is written for those owners, in plain words.
The posts cover the risks that sit under a typical service business website: an old plugin nobody updated, a hosting account with one shared password, a backup that was never tested, and server software with a published flaw. Each post names the risk, shows how to tell whether your own site has it, and says what to ask your web person or your host.
We also compare the common ways small business sites are built. A site that runs plugins, a database and server code has more doors for an attacker than a site that is served as finished pages. Where we say one approach is safer or faster, we show why and link the source, and where something is our opinion we say so.
Start by checking when your site's software was last updated and whether you can restore it from a backup today. If you would rather have a site built with fewer of those doors, our web design page shows how we build sites for service businesses.
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