Technology

Security and backups, in multiple layers

Your site is protected from malware and attacks by several complementary technologies, and your data is backed up on four levels - two you control yourself, and two handled automatically by our maintenance team.

Technology

Security

Layered security, not just one tool

Every one of our web hosting plans is protected by several complementary technologies - we haven't left any of them on their default settings.

ImunifyAV+

Malware is detected and removed automatically

ImunifyAV+ scans every one of our web hosting plans continuously for malware. An infection is often detected and cleaned up before you ever notice anything is wrong.

fail2ban

Brute-force login attempts are blocked automatically

fail2ban recognises suspicious, repeated login attempts and blocks the attacker's IP address automatically - before they can guess your password.

ModSecurity WAF

A web application firewall filters malicious requests

The ModSecurity firewall recognises and blocks common attack types, such as SQL injection, before they can ever reach your WordPress site.

Our own rules

Our own security rules, refined over years

We don't settle for default settings - we've tuned and extended these tools with our own rules and automation, built on years of experience with real threats.

Take it into your own hands

Self-service backups - two ways

You can take and restore backups yourself, whenever you like - pick whichever fits your need.

Plesk control panel backups

Take a backup manually or on a schedule, right from Plesk - a manual backup can also be saved to remote storage such as Google Cloud, iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox.

See our full backup guide

WP Toolkit's restore point

Take a fast, local restore point from Plesk's WP Toolkit - the handiest way to safeguard your site right before a WordPress update.

Read the guide before updating

Automatic protection

Our maintenance team backs things up for you

Our maintenance team takes automatic backups of your customer data every night (kept for 7 days) and every week (kept for 4 weeks), regardless of whether you also take your own. If you need us to restore one of these backups for you, it's billed hourly.

Restore pricing
Weekdays 9am-3pm €98/h
All other times €198/h

One more safety net

Daily disk images, kept for a week

A daily, provider-level disk image of the entire server is also taken via UpCloud or Hetzner and kept for a week - a fourth, fully independent layer on top of the above. Your customer data is always safe.

Build your site on infrastructure you can trust

Every Hostaan web hosting plan and server runs on the same fast, monitored infrastructure.

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