Secure hosting environments

Ask Freelock: My host is shutting down! What should I do?
It's really a shame. Drupal Gardens has announced to its users that it's shutting down completely on August 1, and users need to move away from the service before it disappears.
Drupal on Docker, with a pinch of Salt
Faster, more secure, more maintainable. Three nice benefits we get from our new standard Drupal server architecture.
Keeping your site safe online
Why do websites get hacked? Websites get hacked for a bunch of different reasons:
Confidentiality, Integrity, or Availability
Not 2 weeks after my newsletter calling out how people take for granted that nothing bad will happen to their web sites, two of the biggest providers went down yesterday, Amazon and Akamai, in several separate incide
Secure the environment
It amazes me that still in 2011, the standard way web designers upload code to a server is FTP ("File transfer protocol"), a protocol that is completely insecure, easy to snoop, slow, hard to use, and often problematic through firewalls. There are many better ways.

Why cheap web hosting is expensive
Just the other day I got a request for proposal for hosting, complete with a statement that they knew of some hosting that would cost $15/month. The implication being that they were looking for a hosting proposal that would not exceed that amount.
Ask Freelock: Shared hosting, managed hosting, dedicated hosting, what's the difference?
Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.
Remote File Integrity Checking
A highly technical article that's a great how-to for setting up remote verification of file integrity from a central trusted server. Sys Admin > v15, i02: File Integrity Assessment via SSH
Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data
Serious flaws in bluetooth security lead to disclosure of personal data. Bluetooth turns out to have a number of security flaws that allow people within range to access your private data, including calendar events and contacts.