Think: security, security, security.
In today’s Internet, security is the top most important aspect of selecting a hosting plan. The Internet is a wild place. Hacking is on the rise and we hear horror stories of how credit card numbers and identities were stolen. If a server is not secure enough, badware viruses are installed in website coding and downloaded on any visitors’ computers.
Of course, most Internet users have a good virus protection on their computers (or at least I hope they do), but still, nobody wants their site to compromise the security of their visitors.
Fortunately, Google uses automatic algorithms and user feedback to compile lists of sites that may be dangerous (read: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45432). Read the rest of this entry »