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4. Boost Security (DDoS Protection)
Network security is one of the biggest reasons why ecommerce businesses are moving to
dedicated server hosting. 2018 has seen its fair share of cases concerning network
security attacks. Many businesses have suffered immense losses through loss of revenue
and online presence. Even the security measures deployed in shared hosting servers are
not a guarantee that your website is protected.
2019 should be a year of expanding your horizons as an ecommerce business and not
fighting the same old story of cyber attacks. Dedicated hosting could protect you from
some of these potential threats witnessed in 2018.
Viruses and worms continue to affect many websites hosted in the same network. While
a virus is a malicious program that can be eradicated with an antivirus, a worm is a lot
more complicated to weed out. Worms are malicious programs that replicate themselves
to infect a large number of host files. A single malicious worm can potentially infect an
entire network of computers making mitigation a lot harder.