ModSecurity is a plugin for Apache web servers that acts as a web application layer firewall. It is employed to stop attacks towards script-driven sites through the use of security rules which contain certain expressions. That way, the firewall can prevent hacking and spamming attempts and shield even Internet sites that aren't updated often. As an example, a number of unsuccessful login attempts to a script admin area or attempts to execute a specific file with the purpose to get access to the script shall trigger particular rules, so ModSecurity shall block these activities the instant it identifies them. The firewall is incredibly efficient because it monitors the entire HTTP traffic to a website in real time without slowing it down, so it can easily prevent an attack before any harm is done. It furthermore maintains a very thorough log of all attack attempts that features more information than typical Apache logs, so you could later examine the data and take further measures to improve the security of your sites if needed.

ModSecurity in Shared Web Hosting

ModSecurity comes by default with all shared web hosting plans that we supply and it shall be turned on automatically for any domain or subdomain that you add/create within your Hepsia hosting CP. The firewall has 3 different modes, so you could switch on and disable it with a mouse click or set it to detection mode, so it shall keep a log of all attacks, but it will not do anything to prevent them. The log for any of your Internet sites shall contain elaborate info such as the nature of the attack, where it came from, what action was taken by ModSecurity, and so on. The firewall rules we use are frequently updated and include both commercial ones that we get from a third-party security firm and custom ones our system administrators include in case that they detect a new kind of attacks. That way, the Internet sites which you host here will be way more secure with no action needed on your end.