Using Plesk for webhosting on Ubuntu - Security risk or reasonably safe?
- by user66952
Sorry for this newb-question I'm pretty clueless about Plesk, only have limited debian (without Plesk) experience.
If the question is too dumb just telling me how to ask a smarter one or what kind of info I should read first to improve the question would be appreciated as well.
I want to offer a program for download on my website hosted on an Ubuntu 8.04.4 VPS using Plesk 9.3.0 for web-hosting. I have limited the ssh-access to the server via key only.
When setting up the webhosting with Plesk it created an FTP-login & user is that a potential security risk that could bypass the key-only access?
I think Plesk itself (even without the ftp-user-account) through it's web-interface could be a risk is that correct or are my concerns exaggerated?
Would you say this solution makes a difference if I'm just using it for the next two weeks and then change servers to a system where I know more about security.
3.In other words is one less likely to get hacked within the first two weeks of having a new site up and running than in week 14&15?
(due to occurring in less search results in the beginning perhaps, or for whatever reason... )