Advanced

How do you "really" find out if a Linux hosting plan is PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant?

Posted by abefroman on
SecureHostingDirectory.com
Mail this story
Print this story

Well you can ask them "are you PCI complaint?" However you shouldn't take their answer at face value. Recently, pretending to be a potential customer with an e-commerce website, I asked 10 random Linux hosts if their shared hosting plan was PCI compliant. 6 said no or no, its not possible on a shared hosting plan, which for the most part is true, especially if its less than $50/mo. As far as shared hosting goes you really should avoid looking at that all together if you are looking for the most secure, as well as a PCI compliant environment. However 3 hosts said yes, they are PCI compliant on their Linux shared plans, which is rather hard to believe.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial, News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
major typo in otherwise good article gus3 2 3,020 Aug 26, 2010 3:49 PM

You cannot post until you login.