One question a lot of soon to be dedicated hosting owners ask themselves is how much should they worry about security with their new dedicated server or hosting plan. First let me answer your question.
Should you worry? Yes! Server security is your responsibility as the server owner. If you don’t know much about dedicated hosting yet though you may ask if your web host has any sort of managed service. This would put the security upgrades of most important components such as server kernel in the hands of somebody else. Please also be advised, control panel usually make the updates easy to handle, if you don’t have very customized setup.
This may cost a little extra, but is well worth the expense if you are a novice user in the world of dedicated hosting.
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