Comments on: How to secure your church’s dedicated Linux server http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/02/09/how-to-secure-your-churchs-dedicated-linux-server/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-secure-your-churchs-dedicated-linux-server Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michael Clark http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/02/09/how-to-secure-your-churchs-dedicated-linux-server/comment-page-1/#comment-3907 Michael Clark Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:47:15 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/02/09/how-to-secure-your-churchs-dedicated-linux-server/#comment-3907 Two other things: Keep your CMS (content management system) up to date as well. Wordpress for example released a major security update earlier this week, version 2.3.2 had a major issue in it. (hint hint) Make backups of your datafiles. What is the church burns down, gets burglarized? Or if someone accidentally unplugs the server and the hard drive gets zapped? A backup system will let you get up and running much more quickly than having to re-enter all the data. My church's site's database got corrupted last Fall, so most of our site is still gone, probably forever. Two other things:

Keep your CMS (content management system) up to date as well. WordPress for example released a major security update earlier this week, version 2.3.2 had a major issue in it. (hint hint)

Make backups of your datafiles. What is the church burns down, gets burglarized? Or if someone accidentally unplugs the server and the hard drive gets zapped? A backup system will let you get up and running much more quickly than having to re-enter all the data. My church’s site’s database got corrupted last Fall, so most of our site is still gone, probably forever.

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