A secure web hosting company will regularly monitor their server as well as their clients site for any kind of loopholes in the security measures. Especially for the ecommerce based sites, this is a necessity as such loopholes may often have devastating outcomes. Make sure that the server of your web hosting service provider is managed and well protected by heavy duty firewalls. It needs to be more powerful that the consumer grade firewall that many people run on their personal computers. The firewalls will help you to protect your server from any kind of external attack from other web sites as hence will enable your web site to remain functional.
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