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Explore Business Web Hosting For Sites In Slate CMS

Along with a user-friendly content management system (CMS), a secure web hosting platform is an essential element for maintaining your business website. Slate CMS users can check that first item off their lists no problem, but what about business web hosting? As a flexible and customizable CMS, Slate simplifies website hosting and security for users, too. Whether you have the internal IT infrastructure to host your own site or you need a secure cloud hosting provider, where you choose to host your website is entirely up to you. See how Slate makes it possible!

What To Look For In A Trusted Business Web Hosting Partner

Scalable Growth With Your Business

If your host’s bandwidth can’t grow with your business, your site is liable to slow down significantly. For sites hosted on internal servers, scalability may be limited if IT infrastructure can’t accommodate traffic spikes. A secure cloud hosting provider should have the ability to adapt to your site’s traffic load with no impact on performance.

Reliable Performance & Ready Backups

One critical component of secure web hosting is protecting your website in the event of a disaster. A prepared provider should have data backups in place, as well as backups for their backups. Consider how often they back up their server and how quickly they can recover data in the event of a loss—the sooner and quicker, the better.

Routine Maintenance & Updates

Seek out a secure web hosting provider experienced in managing site uptime and improving performance with routine maintenance and security patches. While website hosting is usually a service performed in the background, that doesn’t mean it should be forgotten. A dedicated host should stay on top of server updates, enabling efficiencies for your team.

Secure Web Hosting & Improved Site Performance With Slate

If you don’t have your own business web hosting provider or the infrastructure to host your website internally, Slate CMS comes built-in with a certified SOC 2 Type 1 compliant hosting provider. Slate ensures the highest security standards for secure cloud hosting with a 99.9% uptime across all hosted websites. Slate websites are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a secure, private cloud hosting solution that manages security, hardware, network infrastructure and local media destruction.

A Comprehensive Suite Of Secure Cloud Hosting Features & Capabilities

Trust a business web hosting solution that prioritizes page speed, security and convenience.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth = 50 GB / month: The bandwidth of your website dictates the speed at which page content will load for users. This generous bandwidth accounts for large spikes in traffic so even on busy days, your site’s load speed remains steady. Additional bandwidth is available as needed.

Space

Disk Space

Disk space = 5 GB: Disk space is a key component of how web hosting affects content management because it determines how much storage you have available for your website content. Secure cloud hosting specs start at 5 GB but can be increased as requested to accommodate storage needs. Flexible storage is necessary to continue updating your website with fresh content like images and videos, so don’t overlook its importance in your web hosting package.

SSL

SSL Certificate

SSL setup is managed for you, along with monitoring and renewal of your site’s SSL certificate each year. Users expect websites today to be encrypted to protect their personal data and may even receive warnings for sites that don’t have this added layer of security. Failing to maintain an SSL certificate could impact your credibility and deter users from your site.

Speed

Site Load Speed

Your site’s page load speed and bandwidth go hand-in-hand. The speed at which your page loads is a key ranking factor Google considers for displaying content in search results. As an SEO-friendly CMS, Slate ensures you have the capacity to load content quickly to meet user demand.

Mitigation

DDoS Mitigation

Defend your website from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which occur when an attacker attempts to flood your website with spam traffic so real users can’t access your content. This secure server infrastructure includes load-balanced Windows Servers and failover clusters, as well as backup, disaster recovery, change control and contingency procedures. All of these assurances are designed to prevent DDoS attacks and allow users to continue to access your website seamlessly.

Testing

Testing & Reporting

An important component of website hosting security is penetration testing, which can be outsourced to independent third parties quarterly to replicate cyber attacks, if requested. In response to these attacks, site performance is monitored to make sure prevention protocols are effective and efficient at protecting against even the most sophisticated attacks.

For your business’ own compliance requirements, you can request to access reports related to AWS SOC and PCI reports, as well as a HIPAA BAA. Having a built-in hosting provider to stay on top of the security and privacy standards enforced by your industry ensures your reputation remains intact.

SOC 2

SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

SOC 2 Type 2 compliance signifies a business has gone to great lengths to protect user data and prioritizes digital security. To earn SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, the hosting environment was evaluated during an independent audit and was found to have all of the necessary security measures in place. Your business’ reputation is in good hands with a secure web hosting provider.

Website Hosting Security Enhancements

For businesses in the medical, banking or financial industries—or just businesses interested in providing the highest level of security—Slate’s built-in hosting provider has the resources and infrastructure to enhance your website hosting security. If you want the added peace of mind and assurance that your content and user data will be safe, you can contact Slate for more information about options to strengthen your site’s security even further:

Web application firewall (WAF) - Consider a WAF as the last line of defense protecting your website from malicious bots or hackers. Cloud-based WAF solutions incorporate strict rules to keep suspicious IP addresses, URLs and behaviors out of your site. WAFs can be programmed to prevent foreign web traffic not in your service area from entering your site to eliminate spam traffic.

Content security policy (CSP) - A CSP protects your web users from unknowingly downloading harmful code injected into your site from hackers. Businesses have the power to approve verified sources, while the CSP hides harmful content not on your green list so user’s browsers aren’t compromised.

Slate: Your Secure Content Management System With Web Hosting Flexibility

Enjoy the freedom of working with a business web hosting provider of your choice with Slate as your CMS. Websites built in the Slate content management system have the flexibility to live on an internal server owned and operated by your business, Slate’s built-in secure cloud hosting provider for your convenience or another provider of your choice. Slate streamlines content management, web hosting, search engine optimization, custom page layouts and more as a one-of-a-kind CMS that grows with your business.