Recently many store owners approached MercuryMinds and reported that their site performance is down suddenly. They also mentioned that they have not done any changes in their site recently.
Based on these reports we deeply analyzed for the root cause of this issue? At the end we found out that many of them had blog in their sites unused and left outdated. So with this outdated blog as source that are powered by open source platforms such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal the hackers have hacked these blogs. In addition to this many of them had their blog in the same domain where their main website is present which helped hackers to inject malicious codes in their main site too, that is their core business, E-Commerce website.
Because of the above said problem, every store owners have faced performance issue in their websites suddenly. To avoid this we have given many ways below to maintain your blogs. So based on your usage verify which type you are to protect your store and blog from hackers.
Do you leave the blog untouched and outdated?
This will open the gate for the hackers to hack into your outdated blog and if your blog is present in the same domain where your main site is present for e.g. www.yoursite.com/blog then the hackers can easily intrude into your site. In addition to this if you own an eCommerce site then your loss will be very high by donating all the customer related info to the hackers.
If you are this type then you can just remove the blog from your site. So that there will be no loss to you from this action and there will be no threat to your site too. There are many good hosted CMSs like Tumblr, Blogger etc. Create a blog and start using it since everything is taken care by the service provider.
Do you use the blog rarely and leave them outdated?
If you use the blog occasionally and no software update/development is done, then your blog will remain outdated. This will also open the gate for the hackers to hack into your outdated blog and if your blog is present in the same domain where your main site is present for e.g. www.yoursite.com/blog then the hackers can easily corrupt your site. In addition to this if you are an eCommerce customer then your loss will be very high by donating all the customer related info to the hackers.
If you are this type and your eCommerce store built with systems like X-Cart/Magento/CS-Cart then you can use the inbuilt CMS available in these platforms itself. In-built CMS will not have great features as like regular blog software, but they can fulfill your actual purpose really and for your rare usage this will come in handy. These inbuilt CMS are very much secured so even if you use this rarely they will remain secure so is your website. Here you donāt need to spend much cost for blog software maintenance. As part of core website development, this is also taken care of!
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You should focus on version updates of your blog too because if you leave the blog outdated the hackers can easily hack your blog. It is not recommended for regular bloggers to use same domain blogs as like www.yoursite.com/blog. You can go with blog.yoursite.com to enhance security and promoting your blog wonāt affect anything in your site.
Have your blog in a separate domain like www.blog.yourwebsite.com so even if your blog is hacked your website will remain unaffected. Otherwise go for a hosted blog systems like the Tumblr, blogspot,Ā WordPressĀ etc so that you will have regular update to your blog which will make your blog secure from hackers. If you still still need to go with your own blog then you should be updating it frequently with the latest version and you should monitor this regularly so that it should not be outdated.