Choosing A Webhosting Company

Choosing a better webhosting for your company has always been emphasized by all webhosting ‘gurus’. Most told us that, a good webhosting company is an organization that have good data center, amazing uptime and fast-respond costumer services. But, did you know there are other additional factors to be consider, such as the accountability and payment security of that particular organization. These additional factors ensures the long-lasting of your business online.

Certifications and Best Practices.

To find a good webhosting company, some certifications and best practices must be taken into considerations. One of the prove that they are serious in the business is by acquiring SAS 70 (Type II) Audit Process. This is important to convince the costumer and to prove that they are transparent in guarding the consumer, business and employee data.

SAS 70 (the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70) defines the standards an auditor must employ in order to assess the contracted internal controls of a service organization. Service organizations, such as hosted data centers, insurance claims processors, and credit processing companies, provide outsourcing services that affect the operation of the contracting enterprise. The SAS 70 was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a simplification of a set of criteria for auditing standards originally defined in 1988.

Under SAS 70, auditor reports are classified as either Type I or Type II. In a Type I report, the auditor evaluates the efforts of a service organization to prevent accounting inconsistencies, errors, and misrepresentation, and the likelihood that those efforts will produce the desired future results. A Type II report includes the same information as that contained in a Type I report and, in addition, the auditor attempts to determine the extent to which agreed-on controls have been operating effectively between the time they were implemented and the present.

PCI DSS Compliance

Another factor to be consider is the PCI compliant. PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Its purpose is to make credit card transactions between merchants and users more secure. Over the past four years, the PCI has created a council, the Security Standards Council, which has put rules in place designed to encourage greater software security. Requirement 6.6, which turned from a best practice into an actual requirement on June 30, 2008, addresses Web application security specifically. It is considered by many in the security field to be an inadequate requirement but nonetheless a step in the right direction.

Always remember to look at these factors before deciding to buy a webhosting. Seriously, have you ever thought about these factors before buying?

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