Drupal’s Massive Appeal to Companies
The list of entities using Drupal includes large companies, like Sony and Warner Brothers. Organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the federal government’s Recovery.gov use Drupal too. The reasons for Drupal’s widespread appeal are many. Aside from being completely free to use, Drupal’s open source nature encourages active enhancement by thousands of developers around the world. The bottom line is simple, Drupal is constantly becoming better and better, without costing a dime.

The vibrant Drupal developer community includes dozens of “Drupal Camps” throughout the world, each with hundreds of attendees. Hosted by experienced Drupal users and developers who volunteer their time and knowledge, these camps are designed to foster innovation of the Drupal platform, educate new users, and spread the use of Drupal among web developers.

The Downside of Open Source Platforms
As beneficial as Drupal is when developing and managing your website, it is vulnerable to web application exploitation by malicious hackers. Since the Drupal source code is freely available to anyone, hackers have scoured the code for ways to exploit websites that use Drupal. The result can be devastating, including theft of private company and customer information.

FireHost Helps Secure Open Source Solutions
FireHost specializes in protecting websites and open source applications like Drupal from exploitation by malicious hackers. We use advanced web application firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and intrusion sniffing protocols to prevent attacks and exploitation before it starts. Our industry leading security measures allow you to confidently embrace all the wonderful aspects of Drupal, without the constant worry that accompanies the threat of malicious attacks.

FireHost is firmly dedicated to the idea every business and individual deserves the opportunity to conduct business and express themselves online without the risk of an attack by a hacker. Using Drupal to develop and manage complex website applications, with the security promise of FireHost, provides dynamic content for your website. To get started, contact a FireHost Agent today.

Extensibility through plugins is an important feature in WordPress. This tool allows users to build upon the original application and customize it according to their own needs, similar to add-ons in the popular Firefox web browser. Currently, there are thousands of WordPress plugins, but there’s one in particular enabling your blog to easily serve millions of visitors at once: The WordPress Super Cache.

The Super Cache plugin automatically generates static HTML pages directly from your dynamic WordPress blog, transforming resource-heavy WordPress PHP scripts into much lighter HTML pages. This allows your website’s blog to operate faster and serve more visitors.

There isn’t a visible difference for your visitors, but this plugin is very important when your traffic spikes upwards of millions of visitors per hour. As long as you have a professional web hosting plan, The WordPress Super Cache will enable you to easily serve millions of visitors from sources like Digg, Facebook, or Twitter.

Because WordPress is an open source platform however, it is highly susceptible to exploitative attacks. This is where FireHost steps in, providing an industry-leading secure hosting environment, safeguarding your website and protecting your data. Without this protection in place, your website will be prepped to weather an onslaught of visitors by using Super Cache, but could be easily compromised and taken offline by a single hacker.

With professional hosting solutions from FireHost, your company can embrace success, rather than worry about it. To realize your company’s full potential with FireHost and WordPress, contact a FireHost professional today.

These new strict data loss prevention measures include file encryption, digital rights management, storage policies, data classification, and new staff security procedures. For the interesting specifics, click here.

Although your company may not deal in national secrets, your company should consider similar measures to prevent data loss, which can prevent the loss of confidential information, trade secrets, and vital business and customer records.

Protecting your business online means you have consciously taken a look at the cost risk and business risk of having all your data compromised. Can you afford to have your lead-generating website down for a period of time? Is there a competitor that would benefit from knowing your company’s intellectual property? Can you afford to have your clients’ entrusted data hacked and made public, or worse exploited?

With growing eCommerce and so many companies using Content Management Solutions and Customer Relationship Management solutions, protecting your company in its industry requires industry-leading security measures. Some advanced security measures are not found with over 90% of hosting providers including advanced web application firewalls, dynamic intrusion detection, and sophisticated traffic analysis software. Proper security hardware, software, dedicated personnel and proactive protection prevents malicious hackers from stealing information from you and your clients.

Another part of protecting your business online is reviewing your business continuity plan. What happens when a fire occurs in your building destroying your local computers or servers, or a natural disaster or a virus takes out a vital source of information? You can protect your records, files, and databases using FireVault, which encrypts and backs up your data from any number of computers and servers to a secure, cloud sever in the U.S. or UK.

Be leary of hosting companies that provide only hacker reports as their measure of protection. Your business cannot afford to wait until after a breach occurs to be told there’s a problem. The damage is done. Real secure hosting protects you proactively, mitigating and eliminating attacks starting at the HTTP level against your data before they get to your servers. The consequences of inaction could be insurmountable for businesses of any size. Online threats require businesses of all sizes to ensure they have secure web hosting.