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Originally Posted by AbbieRose
I hear one of the biggest reasons stated for using a VPS as opposed to shared hosting is the added security. But I have also heard of servers being brought down because a site that was hosted on VPS was hacked, and through it the whole server was taken down. Everything back till the most recent back up was lost.
So was this server badly set up? Is the additional security really sufficiently good to merit the extra cost?
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A VPS security level is only as good as the vps administrator makes it. Basically a VPS server is a small dedicated server in the terms of how it functions. It is still your responsibility to secure and optimize your VPS.
The reason that site was hacked either could have been due to a poorly coded script or the VPS administrator did not secure the VPS properly.
Shared hosting and a VPS can have the same security level and again they might not. If you get a shared hosting plan then its up to your hosting company to secure the server and you have to hope they have secured it properly. On a VPS server is is your responsibility unless the company to got it from offer a service to you hire a server administrator to do this for you.