Choosing a web host that meets your security requirements
In this appendix, you'll learn what you, as the site administrator, can do to keep your site safe. However, there are also some basic but critical security measures that your web hosting company should take. You'll probably have a shared hosting account, where multiple sites are hosted on one server computer and each site has access to their part of the available disk space and resources. Although this is much cheaper than hiring a dedicated server to host your site, it does involve some security risks. Good web hosting companies take precautions to minimize these risks. When selecting your web host, it's worth checking if they have a good reputation of keeping their security up to standards. The official Joomla resources site (http://resources.joomla.org/directory/support-services/hosting.html) features hosting companies that fully meet the security requirements of a typical Joomla-powered site.