Just before the New Year we fell victim to a malware attack, which targeted our webhost and compromised our account security. Though it’s a reality that no form of hosting is 100% secure, we’ve decided to move from Bluehost over to the more established Media Temple, a host which we’ve taken issue with in the past but offers more of the types of hosting features we need, anyways (including more security).

In the coming days we’ll be offering up for our readers a couple tips on securing your WordPress install, to make sure that the ‘front end’ types of attacks are prevented. In this case there was precious little we could do but restore our files, and that was troubling enough, as we moved gigabytes worth of data between servers.

All of this brings rise to the number one thing you can do to ensure that things are always safe online with your websites? Backup!