Email and security
SSL, email and security add-ons
Certificates, website security, off-server backups, spam filtering and mailboxes on your own domain. Each one is a separate product in your client area, added to the hosting account you already have.
- Ordered from your client area
- Added to your existing account
- 24/7 support
- Free Let's Encrypt SSLListed on the plans whose feature list includes it — check your plan
- 24/7 supportTickets and WhatsApp, at any hour
- mod_security filteringConfigured on managed servers at deployment to filter common web attacks
- DDoS mitigation availableHardware-based monitoring and mitigation can be added to a server
In the store
The add-ons, and what each one is for
Security and email first, then the site and SEO tools that are sold from the same place. Every link opens the product in your client area, where the options and the current price are listed.
- SSL CertificatesA certificate for your domain, so visitors reach the site over HTTPS instead of a browser warning. The store lists the certificate types and what each one validates.
- SiteLockSiteLock website security as an add-on to your account. The store lists the protection levels available and what each level covers.
- CodeGuardCodeGuard keeps copies of your website away from the server it runs on, so a bad update or a broken plugin is something you can undo.
- Email Spam FilteringA filter that sits in front of the mailboxes on your domain and holds back spam and phishing before anyone opens them.
- Professional EmailMailboxes at your own domain, so your team writes from name@yourbusiness.com instead of a free address.
- Website BuilderA drag-and-drop builder for putting a site together without code. Check your hosting plan first: several plans list a builder already.
- MarketGooThe MarketGoo SEO tool, added to your account. If you would rather hand the work over, our SEO service is the other route.
- XOVI SEOThe XOVI SEO toolset, ordered from the store for people who want the data and want to act on it themselves.
- VPNA VPN service, ordered from the store, for encrypting your own connection on shared and public networks.
Why it matters
Six different jobs, not one
Security is usually sold as a single word. In practice these products protect different things, and buying one does not cover another.
Encryption in transit
An SSL certificate encrypts what moves between a visitor and your server. Without one, browsers mark the page not secure, and anything typed into a form crosses the network in the clear.
Something watching the files
A certificate does not look at what you serve. Website security scans the pages and files themselves, which is where injected code and outdated plugins show up.
A copy somewhere else
Backups matter most when the server itself is the problem. A copy held off the machine is the one you can still reach when the machine cannot be reached.
Mail that is worth reading
Filtering in front of your mailboxes holds back spam and phishing before anyone reads it, so your team is asked to judge fewer suspicious messages.
An address that belongs to you
Mail on your own domain is yours: it survives changing provider, and it tells a customer the message came from your business and not from a free account.
Your own connection
A VPN encrypts the traffic leaving your laptop. It is worth having when your team works from cafes, hotels and airports as often as from the office.
Where to start
What we would add first
Three common situations, and the order we would put things in.
You just launched a brochure site
A certificate, and nothing else for now. Once the site has forms or a login, add website security. If the contact address on the page is a free mailbox, move it to your domain.
You take payments or hold logins
A certificate is not optional here. Add website security to watch the files, and a backup product so a compromised or broken store can be rolled back instead of rebuilt.
Your business runs on email
Put the mailboxes on your own domain and put a filter in front of them. An attack on a small business often arrives as a convincing message rather than as traffic to the website.
Not sure which hosting plan you are on, or what it already includes? Every plan lists its features on its own hosting page, starting with Linux shared hosting, and the backup policy sets out how server backups are handled.
Questions
Security questions
Is an SSL certificate included with my hosting?
Several hosting plans list a free Let's Encrypt certificate on their spec sheet, so plenty of sites run on HTTPS without buying anything. Check the plan you are on, or the plan you are about to order, before you pay for a certificate. If you need a different kind, the SSL store lists what is available.
Are backups part of my hosting plan?
Read the backup policy before you rely on a backup held on the server: it sets out how server backups are handled, what they cover, and what stays your responsibility. If you want a copy of your site kept independently of the server, that is what CodeGuard is for.
Can I add these to an account I already have?
Yes. Each product on this page is ordered from the same client area you use for hosting and domains, so it lands on the account and the invoice you already have.
Why are there no prices on this page?
Because they depend on the option you pick, and a price printed here would be wrong the moment it changed in the store. Open any product above to see the current price, or ask us and we will check it with you.
Is a VPS secure?
Yes. Each VPS hosting account has its own isolated RAM, CPU and server resources, so your data and processes are more secure in their own virtual environment than they would be on shared hosting.
Not sure which add-on you need?
Tell us what your site does and who uses the mail, and we will say what is worth adding and what is not.