7 Warning Signs Your Website Has Been Hacked
Most hacked sites look normal to their owners. Here are the quiet signs that something is wrong, and what to do in the first hour.
Websites go down for boring reasons: an expired SSL certificate, a full disk, a plugin update, a hosting outage. The damage depends on how long nobody notices.
What a good monitor checks
- That the homepage answers with a normal status code
- How long the server takes to respond
- When the SSL certificate expires, with a warning weeks ahead
- That an outage is confirmed by more than one failed check before you are alerted
Monitoring every five minutes means you hear about a problem in minutes, not days, and the uptime history shows your host whether they are meeting their promises.