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To achieve a secure Joomla set up, there are ten aspects to be diligently taken care of.
1. Cheap hosting providers to be strictly avoided. They use shared servers hosting 100 other sites of which a few are high porn ones. Sharing the same IP, your website would be slow too also with a bad reputation due to a bad surrounding. Easily prone to hacking as well; hence better to go with the list of recommended and Joomla approved hosting providers.
2. Backups are important- Ensure to take Joomla backups so when hacking occurs we have a hold to build from scratch.
3. Adjusting settings of PHP is a must. Skipping the settings for security of PHP is a threat to Joomla. Ensuring all the smallest possible settings and tweaks to make the PHP server and Joomla, prevents all if not just a few security issues at the occurrence itself avoiding further consequences.
4. Avoiding same password username all over is a well-known basic good practice while many of us fail to follow it we ought to admit. (Joomla, bank, yahoo, gmail, facebook, amazon and what not!) Also admin account should be named something other than the word ‘admin’!
5. Missing to ensure all are fit in a newly installed brand new Joomla powered website isn’t any sense. Anything can go wrong anytime leading to Joomla issues unless a regular maintenance of Joomla installations is made.
6. Having no development server to try the upgrades and installations, before pushing to the live site is a bad practice. Mistakes can be corrected well before they reach the live site.
7. Installing all the 3rd party extensions isn’t quite healthy. To ensure optimal Joomla security one should go with the least extensions needed. While some of them are secure, most others are flooded with vulnerabilities. Hence it’s the best recommended to go with the professional components from reputable companies.
8. Updating Joomla releases is an absolute necessity. Every stable release as and when it comes up needs to be updated by a website sitting on it without which the website is never going to consume the release fixes and vulnerability removals leaving the site open to all problems. This is the case for extensions too
9. Joomla forums are to be kept in touch with, so one doesn’t go ahead with posting crazy stuffs. Version of Joomla, 3rd party extensions’ version and all to be kept in place so when there’s a hacking in future we just to know what to do and how to get out of it!
10. Fixing just the corrupted file isn’t enough in case of getting hacked. Logs to be checked, passwords to be changed, entire directory to be trashed, rebuild from scratch to be done and take care of all warnings so security issues don’t pop up.
Having said these, we ensure we are up to date with the trends in web design, details on CMS security, and content management software to ensure we have a secure CMS. If you are looking for the best in web designing incorporating all the aspects in the best manner to the classy design that impresses Google, feel free to contact us.
