All Host Gator VPS web hosting servers feature extensive security protocols and solutions designed to prevent unauthorized access to your website, as well as the data it contains, e.g., customer details. These measures include firewall protection, PCI compliance, Safe Harbor certification and protection from viruses.
Firewall Rules
A custom, proprietary firewall protects all VPS servers from hacker intrusion and denial-of-service attacks. The firewall contains thousands of manually created rulesets built to automatically detect and block UDP floods, network attacks and other malicious attempts to infiltrate or harm your site. Furthermore, in case a flood passes through the gates, the VPS server datacenter will automatically enable a network-wide flood protection scheme.
PCI Compliance
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DDS, ensures that all merchant transactions processed through your VPS server remain secure from beginning to end. To remain PCI Compliant, Host Gator must maintain a secure network, protect consumer data, continually reduce vulnerability exposure, limit tough access-control protocols, routinely test their networks and cultivate a stringent company-wide security policy.
Safe Harbor Certified
The Safe Harbor Certification mandates that any data collected from a European nation must meet the standard set forth by the European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection. The latter decrees that the certified company maintains the privacy and integrity of all its European clients’ data. Thus, you have an extra tool that you may use to assure all your European customers that any information they submit through your site will remain secure.
Anti-Virus
VPS servers at Host Gator do not come with an anti-virus suite by default, save for a minor Email virus scanner. However, if you email the support staff, they’ll gladly install ClamAV. It’s an open-source anti-virus engine geared to detect and block malware, Trojans, viruses and other malicious files. Included is a multi-threaded scanning daemon, a command-line interface for scanning specific files and an auto signature update tool.
