Have you heard bad things about WordPress, Joomla, and other open source content management systems?
There are some web development companies who will tell you to avoid a designer who builds WordPress or Joomla websites because those sites aren’t secure. They’ll tell you that they have their own proprietary content management system that is much more secure, or that it’s easier for you to use, or they’ll have rehearsed some other perfectly plausible reason you should use their system.
Ask yourself, and them, what you should do if they tick you off and you want to take your business elsewhere. Every business needs an exit strategy, especially from strategic alliances that no longer serve them well or have become outright toxic.
Let me tell you something about WordPress. It has surpassed Joomla as my OS CMS of choice because of it’s ease of use for my clients. There are thousands of cutting-edge programmers all over the world working continuously to identify security threats to the programming and eliminating them every day. Can that local proprietary CMS say the same thing?
The reason Open Source CMS’s have a reputation for security issues is that most people install them and use them ‘out of the box’ with their standard presets unchanged. I go to extreme lengths to lock down your website and protect it from spam, bots, malware and attacks. But think about it. The international hacking group known as ‘Anonymous’ has been penetrating the security of sites from Bank of America to Facebook. If someone is talented and tenacious enough, they will eventually be able to hack your site.
That’s why I have a system to back up each of my client’s websites every day, and more importantly the experience to be able to RESTORE the site immediately. So let them come and try! We got ‘em all foiled, because we can be back up and running in minutes. By the way, I’ve never had any outside interference on one of my client’s websites.
