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5 good reasons why you may need to change your web host now, before it is too late There is a very high possibility that changing your web host now could actually save you a lot of grief in the near future. In the past people have hardly paid attention to their web hosts and have thus been ignorant to the fact that this is a choice that makes a huge impact on performance and ultimately the success of any online venture. 1)Security at your web host matters The security settings of your web host matter. They actually matter a lot. So much so that the security of your site from hacks and all the other increasing online dangers depends on it. An intensive review of your web host may lead you to look at a few other web hosts and their infrastructure with the intention of moving your hosting elsewhere. 2)Ddos attacks on another site in your hosts network will affect you The danger of Ddos attacks is on the rise. Ddos or Distributed Denial-of-service attacks have been targeted at various well known sites in the past costing losses. These are the attacks where massive false online traffic is generated towards your site, thus crippling it. The attack is executed when thousands of compromised zombie hosts are directed against a target. These zombie hosts are unwittingly recruited from the millions of unprotected computers online and are quickly build up waiting for the command to launch a Ddos attack. The symptoms are that a site receives impossibly high false traffic that literally shuts it down. More...