Want your very own website?

Thinking of starting a blog?

Yeah?

Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal?

Yeah?

How to get a domain name?

Yeah?

Who´s gonna host it?

Yeah?

How do I build it? Free template theme or pay?

Yeah?

Watching YouTube endlessly to help you make your mind up?

Yeah?

Reading up on how to secure your site from getting hacked?

Uuummmmm........well......well actually no!

Well make that a big YEAH and put it at the top of the list.

How do I know this?

Coz I didn´t give security a second thought and got hacked by a person or persons unknown of a criminal disposition and as a result apart from getting my site blacklisted ended up having to trash my site and start again from scratch which I´m in the process of doing. Hours of work not to mention money down the swanny.

So here´s some tips from someone who is to IT what a hairdryer is to alopecia.

Get this and watch the installation and configuration video here

Get this and watch the installation and configuration video here

Set up this and watch the configuration video here

There´s tons to read googling “how to protect your site from hackers” but these 3 steps should help until you´re more familiar with the subject.

DON´T underestimate the importance of security. Within the first 24 hrs of doing a new Joomla installation I had over 20 attempts to get into my administration page.

Hope this helps.

As for me, back to hours of YouTube and reading to learn how to add content and the like.
Cheers,
touché