What are the benefits of SiteGround Site Scanner?
At 12 Virtues Consulting, we recommend that you use the Siteground Site Scanner if you want to protect your website.
- Site Scanner performs daily automatic URL scans of your website and checks if they contain any malicious links or content. You will be instantly notified on your account’s administrative email if a potential threat is detected. You will also see a warning in your SiteGround’s Client Area.
- On a daily basis, this scheduled scan also checks whether your domain is blacklisted in the databases of the most popular search engines, browsers, and antivirus organizations. If your domain is found in any of these blacklists, the Site Scanner will notify you promptly via your email.
- Through the tool’s interface you can perform comprehensive on-demand scans at any time. The manual on-demand scans go over your website URLs and files, as well as the domain blacklist checks.
- The tool keeps reports from the manual and automatic scans from the last 30 days, which you can review at any time through the tool’s interface.
- Whenever the Site Scanner detects malicious content, it instantly sends an email notification to your administrative email. Additionally, you receive a weekly summary of all the scans from the past week. You can also easily disable or enable the weekly summary reports from the tool’s interface.
- You can allow or limit the website’s access points via FTP, SSH, PHP uploads, and shell or PHP scripts with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. This is especially handy if you suspect any hacking attempts that you want to stop or prevent.
If your project is simple and does not change often, then Site Scanner basic provides protection and notifies you of the availability of your website. If your website is changing constantly or there are sub-domains, then you should consider upgrading to the premium version.
- In addition to the domain blacklist check and URLs scan, all website files are automatically scanned every day (including the files of subdomains, staging copies, and subfolders).
- Automatic scans and quarantine for newly uploaded files – this is an optional feature that you can easily enable or disable at any time. The Site Scanner scans any new file uploaded to your website. In the case that a file is deemed suspicious, it is isolated into quarantine so you can review it and decide if you want to release it or permanently delete it.
To learn more about the Siteground Site Scanner, read their article here.
