WordPress Experts Aim to Provide Secure WordPress Hosting
This is the second interview in the “Hosting+Security” series.
WordPress – is the most frequently used tag on this blog. There are two major reasons for this:
- I use WordPress myself and closely track development in this area.
- WordPress is the most popular free open-source blogging engine (according to its developers it is currently used by 25+ million sites), which makes it equally popular for hackers as a target of their attacks.
Thousands (if not millions) of WordPress bloggers have already experienced various security related problems: malicious scripts and spammy links injected into their web pages, rogue users, corrupted databases — they know how much time and efforts it may take to recover their sites, and how it can be frustrating to find their blogs hacked again just a few weeks later.
In this interview, I will talk with Jason Cohen about WordPress security and his new WPEngine hosting company that aims to protect your WP blogs better than any traditional shared hosting provider.
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