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That’s a lot of hacked sites

More than 1 million WordPress sites were hacked in 2010. Really? Really. WordPress is the most popular CMS on the planet, which is great because you get awesome features, unlimited plugins, and incredible partners (like ZippyKid.) Being this popular also makes them a larger target for attacks, which makes WordPress vulnerable if not protected right.

More than just plugins

Effective WordPress security takes more than a few plugins, in fact how secure your website is is more dependent on your host. If your host isn’t doing the right things to protect your site, you’re going to be hacked. It’s just a matter of time.

ZippyKid handles every part of your website’s security and takes it seriously. You won’t be directed to ways to make your site more secure, we’ll do it on day one and everyday after.

How ZippyKid helps

Here are some of the things we do to make sure your site is protected:

• We manage all of your WordPress and plugin updates
• Security audits are performed nightly
• Everything is behind a firewall
• All servers are jailed, so different users can’t see each others stuff (and can’t bring each other down.)
• Web application firewalls are running on all servers
• SSL implementation
• Our support staff is only allowed to work on a VPN (but you can trust those guys.)
• Physical access to the machines is restricted to Rackspace only. Learn more about Rackspace’s datacenters.

Backups, backups, backups

If something were to happen, you’ll get nightly database backups, weekly filesystem backups, and nightly server image backups (all stored for 6 months) so we can spin your site back up immediately. Oh yeah, and there’s no charge to restore from backup.