In order to increase stability and improve the security of our sites, we recently began moving many of our clients to a new hosting company, RackSpace. This move is especially important for our ecommerce clients, as heightened security is a key component to PCI compliance (a required standard of security and policy around the protection of stored and transmitted credit card data). The principles around this standard are:

• Having a secure network with a firewall and strong passwords
• Protecting cardholder data by storing data correctly and encrypting cardholder transmissions
• Reducing vulnerability by using anti-virus software and secure systems
• Implementing access control to data by restricting physical and electronic access to data
• Regularly monitoring data by tracking access to cardholder data and testing security systems
• Maintaining an information security policy to address how information is kept secure  

We take the responsibilities and requirements of these standards very seriously and feel that moving to RackSpace is beneficial to clients across the board, for ecommerce and non-ecommerce sites alike. Not only does RackSpace offer superior security, their customer service and 24/7 monitoring are unmatched and will help us provide better support to all clients.