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Source: HostReview - Posted by Alex
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Your website may not be as secure as you once thought... Most people take the Internet for granted. When it comes to the Internet as we know it – Social Networks, Media Sites, Email, File Repositories, etc. – usability is as far as our concern extends.
If it works, that is all we care about. But the truth of the matter is that understanding the complexity of the Internet also helps you to understand why security is so overwhelmingly important, yet often overlooked.
To understand the nature of the beast is to be aware that your personal websites, reseller accounts, VPS servers, Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, Clusters, and server farms all reside in facilities known as datacenters. A datacenter is nothing more than a purpose-built facility with special infrastructure – large amounts of power, cooling, fiber connections and any number of physical devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers and server hardware (powerful computers with public and private Internet connectivity to which people or other computers connect). What most people fail to realize is how and where their slice of that infrastructure is located and the typical events that are ongoing every second of every day attempting to penetrate and gain access to them.
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