Speed, security, and affordability are primary concerns for any online business. 100 Markets LLC aims to satisfy all these needs with our secure managed hosting.
Secure Web Hosting
We use various techniques and software to increase the security of our hosted sites, including but not limited to:
- ModSecurity - An application firewall that can block known and unknown exploits before they reach your web application.
- Suhosin - An advanced protection system for PHP. Designed to protect against known and unknown flaws in PHP.
- Intelligent Firewall - We constantly monitor for suspicious activity and block offending IP addresses for a variable amount of time, based on level of offense.
- Aggressive Updates - The vast majority of attacks on web servers are from bots and "script kiddies" who rely on known exploits and ready-made attack scripts. Our aggressive patch schedule stops these kinds of attacks dead in their tracks.
- Intrusion Detection System - In the event of a successful attack, we have measures in place to notify us immediately of any changed system files or suspicious activity originating your site. This allows us to shut down the attack before serious harm is done.
- Multiple Daily Backups - We take backups of all files and databases multiple times per day. Our advanced backups can restore an entire site or an individual file or database table quickly and efficiently. The backups are stored on a remote server to protect against catastrophic server failure.
Fast Web Hosting
Several studies have indicated that the speed of a site directly impacts the length of time a customer will stay on your site, how willing they are to click on links, and ultimately sales. Amazon, for example, found that each increase in response time of just 100ms resulted in a 1% decrease in sales. Google found that a 500ms increase in displaying search results reduced their ad revenue by 20 percent! For these reasons, Google now includes site speed as a factor for how your site ranks in their search results. Here are a few things we do at the server level to make sure that the sites we host are operating at peak performance:
- RAID Storage - All of your data will be stored on a RAID array for improved access time and redundancy.
- Compression Enabled by Default - Most web pages can be quickly compressed to less than half of their original size. These documents see a corresponding decrease in the amount of time it takes to transfer them across the web. Unfortunately, many webmasters either forget or lack the know-how to enable compression, and they miss out on this benefit. We enable compression on all text documents including HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript -- you get the benefit without lifting a finger!
- PHP Opcode Caching - PHP is a scripting language, and normally compiled each time a script is called. Opcode caching allows the server to skip compiling the script after the first view, shaving time off the response.
- No Overloading - We carefully plan how many sites we can host per server to ensure there is never more load than we can handle. In addition, we constantly monitor server load and track down scripts and database queries that need optimization.
