Common Hosting Problem

Your Website Was Hacked - Here's What Your Host Should Have Prevented

Most UK website hacks exploit vulnerabilities that better hosting security would have blocked. Switch to hosting with Imunify360, Corero DDoS protection, and free SSL.

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You're Not Alone

Your Website Was Hacked - Here's What Your Host Should Have Prevented

A hacked website on UK hosting is a traumatic experience for any business owner, and Glitch Servers provides the server-level security infrastructure - Imunify360 malware scanning, Corero Smartwall DDoS protection, and free SSL - that prevents the majority of successful attacks. When your WordPress site displays a Google 'Deceptive Site Ahead' warning, your hosting control panel shows unfamiliar files, or your site starts redirecting visitors to spam pages, the cause is usually a combination of outdated CMS software, weak file permissions, and hosting that provides no server-level malware scanning. Budget hosts provide disk space and PHP but no active security monitoring - leaving your site entirely dependent on your own CMS updates and password management. Glitch Servers includes Imunify360 with every Enhance Panel plan, providing real-time malware detection, automatic quarantine of infected files, and exploit signature scanning. Combined with Corero Smartwall DDoS protection and free Let's Encrypt SSL on every plan, the attack surface available to malicious actors is dramatically reduced.

External resources: NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) and ICO (UK data protection authority).

Why This Happens

The Root Cause

What's really going on

Most website hacks exploit one of three vectors: outdated WordPress plugins with known vulnerabilities, weak or reused passwords, or PHP file upload vulnerabilities. Budget hosting without server-level malware scanning allows these attacks to succeed silently - files are modified, backdoors are planted, and spam is sent from your server for days or weeks before you notice. Hosts without Imunify360 or equivalent active scanning leave detection entirely to the site owner.

The Real Cost

What This Problem Is Costing You

This isn't just a technical inconvenience - it has measurable effects on your business.

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Lost Revenue

A Google 'Deceptive Site Ahead' warning destroys your organic traffic overnight - pages that ranked well vanish from results while the warning is active.

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Wasted Time

Hours or days spent cleaning infected files, restoring from backups, and submitting Google Search Console reconsideration requests - highly technical work that most site owners must pay an expert to handle.

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Damaged Reputation

The reputational damage of customers and prospective clients being shown a browser security warning when they try to visit your site.

A hacked website that serves malware or redirects visitors triggers Google's Safe Browsing system, which adds a 'Deceptive Site Ahead' warning to your Google search results. This warning collapses your organic traffic almost immediately and takes days to weeks to remove after cleaning the infection. Lost rankings from the Google penalty compound the direct traffic loss. Customer trust, once damaged by a security incident, is difficult to rebuild.

The Solution

How Glitch Servers Fixes This

Glitch Servers includes Imunify360 with every Enhance Panel plan - providing real-time malware scanning, automatic infected file quarantine, and exploit signature detection at the server level. Corero Smartwall DDoS protection prevents volumetric attack traffic from reaching your server. Free SSL on every plan prevents man-in-the-middle attacks on form submissions and login credentials. automatic backups runs daily automated backups so clean restore points are always available.

What You Get

Why Glitch Servers Is Different

Infrastructure built to prevent these problems - not patch them after the fact.

Imunify360 Malware Scanning

Real-time server-level malware detection included on all plans. Imunify360 automatically quarantines infected files and alerts you - you do not need to manually scan for infections.

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Corero Smartwall DDoS Protection

Inline network-level DDoS protection prevents volumetric attack traffic from reaching your server - protecting against the common attack type used to take sites offline.

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Daily Backups via automatic backups

Daily automated backups provide clean restore points if your site is infected. Restore from before the hack directly from the Enhance Panel - no manual backup process needed.

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Free SSL on Every Plan

Let's Encrypt SSL is included free and auto-renewed. HTTPS prevents credential interception on login forms and protects your admin panel access.

Free Migration - We'll Move Everything for You

Switching hosts feels daunting, but we make it painless. Our team handles the full migration at no charge - your site, emails, databases, and DNS, with zero downtime during the switch.

  • Full website and file transfer handled by our team
  • All databases, emails, and DNS migrated correctly
  • Zero-downtime cutover - your visitors won't notice
  • Free for all new Glitch Servers customers
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Migration included free

One-Click Installs

Install WordPress in Under 2 Minutes - No Developer Needed

The one-click installer deploys a clean WordPress in under two minutes. After a hack, starting fresh on secure hosting with a clean install is often the most reliable recovery path.

All Glitch Servers Enhance Panel plans include one-click installation for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Joomla - free with every hosting plan.

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🛒WooCommerce
💬Joomla

Pricing

Web Hosting Plans - Simple, Transparent Pricing

Two straightforward plans - no hidden fees, no renewal price hikes. Cancel anytime.

Web 1
£2.99/mo

For sole traders and individuals

  • 1 Website
  • 10GB SSD Storage
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • 5 Mailboxes
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • Free SSL Certificates
  • DDoS Protection by Corero
  • One-Click WordPress Install

1 CPU core · 1GB RAM · 25 Entry Processes

Ideal for a sole trader whose single business site needs server-level security without managing it manually.

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All plans include Enhance Panel, one-click WordPress/WooCommerce install, free SSL, and UK-based support. Free migration included for all new customers. Prices exclude VAT.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Signs include: Google Search Console security alerts, browser warnings when visiting your site, unexpected files in your Enhance Panel File Manager, site redirecting to spam or adult sites, email abuse complaints from your server IP, or your hosting provider suspending your account for malware activity.
Imunify360 is a server-level security suite that provides real-time malware scanning, automatic quarantine of infected files, exploit signature detection, and proactive defence against known attack patterns. It operates at the server level - independent of your CMS - so it catches infections that WordPress security plugins miss.
Our support team can assist with identifying and removing infections on sites hosted with us. If you migrate a hacked site to Glitch Servers, we recommend restoring from a known-clean backup first - Imunify360 will then monitor ongoing.
SSL prevents data interception in transit (man-in-the-middle attacks) and protects login credentials on your admin panel and forms. It does not prevent CMS vulnerabilities or server-level infections - for those, Imunify360 malware scanning and keeping WordPress/plugins updated are essential.
automatic backups retains daily backups. Retention period depends on server storage allocation. For most Enhance Panel plans, multiple daily snapshots are available to restore from - allowing you to roll back to before the infection was introduced.

Switch today - free migration included.

Imunify360, Corero DDoS protection, free SSL, and daily backups on every plan. From £2.99/month.

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