{"id":27942,"date":"2026-03-04T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/docs\/what-are-the-best-practices-for-securing-my-site\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:58:46","password":"","slug":"what-are-the-best-practices-for-securing-my-site","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs\/what-are-the-best-practices-for-securing-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the best practices for securing my site?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s essential to keep the CMS (WordPress \/ Joomla \/ Drupal etc.) used to develop your website and its plugins up to date.<\/p>\n\n<p>CMS vendors regularly release security updates to close loopholes used by hackers.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>1-<\/strong> A password must be at least 8 characters long, more is better.<br\/><strong>2-<\/strong> it must never be a word found in the dictionary of any language. Password cracking software has dictionaries containing hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and looks for every combination. It takes from a few minutes to a few hours to crack these passwords very easily.<br\/><strong>3-<\/strong> A good password contains letters, numbers, special characters, upper and lower case.<br\/><strong>4-<\/strong> Don&#8217;t use the same password for FTP, SQL database, e-mail, website administration interface. The hacker knows that if he finds your password, chances are it&#8217;s the same password elsewhere! Many web hosts offer a unique password to &#8220;simplify&#8221; management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, it&#8217;s essential to keep the CMS (WordPress \/ Joomla \/ Drupal etc.) used to develop your website and its plugins up to date. CMS vendors regularly release security updates to close loopholes used by hackers. 1- A password must be at least 8 characters long, more is better.2- it must never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[136],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-27942","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-web-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":150,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Support","author_nicename":"support","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/author\/support\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Web hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/docs-category\/web-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27943,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/27942\/revisions\/27943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=27942"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheops-technology.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=27942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}