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You can configure that machine to automatically update itself, which is what I do. And I don't think GoDaddy or other managed hosting providers are doing a bet
by bad_user 8y ago
You can configure that machine to automatically update itself, which is what I do.
And I don't think GoDaddy or other managed hosting providers are doing a better job than this.
Also FYI static websites have a much smaller surface of attack when compared to forever-vulnerable shit like WordPress.
- jacurtis 8y agoyes, this. Godaddy is not doing much more than auto-updating packages with security fixes. This is easily handled with most Linux VPSs (often automatically, in the case of DigitalOcean). I am pretty sure the Amazon Linux AMIs do this too on AWS EC2. And most other distros can turn this on once with one command. I don't think GoDaddy is going much deeper than this, so security is a moot comparison between the two. In fact most sites are hacked at the application level anyway, not the system level. So the real security hole is not something on Linux, but the actual wordpress site thats installed within it. Food for thought: 83% of hacked websites in 2017 were Wordpress sites. Source: https://sucuri.net/reports/2017-hacked-website-report https://sucuri.net/reports/2017-hacked-website-report