Title: Shared Server Security
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Shared Server Security

 *  [RBX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbx/)
 * (@rbx)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-server-security/)
 * I have several sites on a shared server and all of them are very secure, still
   all sites get hacked simultaneously from time to time (all usernames/passwords
   are rewritten – nothing else).
 * I don’t know if this is how shared servers are supposed to work, but DBs created
   using one account can be easily accessed from another if DB name and password
   are provided, and thus one vulnerable site puts every other at risk.
 * Is there anything I can ask my hosting provider to do? Or is it time to change
   hosting?

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-server-security/#post-7174790)
 * you may want to implement some (if not all) of [the recommended security measures](https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress).
 *  Thread Starter [RBX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbx/)
 * (@rbx)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-server-security/#post-7174791)
 * I have already gone over all these measures several times, and do implement them
   on each new site. I also use iThemes’ security plugin, and Google reCaptcha where
   possible.
    All the files are very secure but I haven’t been able to do anything
   about DB.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [RBX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbx/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shared-server-security/#post-7174791)
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