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Old 01-02-2010, 01:38 AM  
GFED
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Is my Dedicated Server Secure?

I've been spreading out my sites on virtual servers ever since the last dedicated server I had got hacked and used to send about 10 million spam emails and all my sites got wiped.

It was one of those self managed $99/month specials you see from various web hosting providers.

The only thing that they could do was to re-image the server with it's operating system.

Is web server security something that is available only through managed servers? I installed my own software firewall (smoothwall I believe) but apparently it wasn't good enough.

I'm looking to consolidate all of my websites onto one dedicated server and would like to know my options in the under $150/month price range.

Thanks =)
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