Putney, London-based web host
MarbleHost.com is now offering shared web hosting customers two levels of security protection. The company, which has data centers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, and whose services include semi-dedicated servers, VPS, dedicated servers and domain sales, is offering security against brute force attacks and DDoS attacks.
The security service being offered will also "prevent situations when websites with security holes are hacked".
The company's "Level One: ModSecurity" protects web applications by preventing the bulk of URL forgery hacker attacks and helps reduce robot-based forum spamming - a boon to Wordpress users that utilize Wordpress plugins which may have security weaknesses should website owners not continually update security fixes.
ModSecurity also recognizes brute force attacks from a particular IP addresses and blocks them for 30 minutes when they occur. It does this by recognizing when 15 failed login attempts from a particular IP address within 3 minute period.
The company's "Level Two: Cloud Hosting Platform" also minimizes server vulnerability by migrating the websites it serves to the company's new cloud hosting platform - a platform which stores applications, emails and databases on a number of machines (instead of a single machine) to deter DDoS attacks.
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