is shared hosting secure?

Question

I have a question with security point of view, it might sound silly but i\'m very interested to know. If someone uploads his code on shared hosting (assuming some general US

Answer 1

Well, the hosting administrator has obviously access to your code, but of course they should have some policy that prevent for usage of your data. Other user could not "generally speaking" see your code, but this strongly depends on server configuration. For example, if some other webmaster host a web application in the same server and this is exploited, it is possible that also your application is affected. Moreover, it could be easyer for other user using the same server to access your data instead of a "normal" attack to a private server.

btw, you should be a good sysadmin to protect a server better than a pros that does this thing all day long, so, it basically depends on your system admininstration knowledge.

As you posted this question, you're probably not that good in this kind of stuff, so you may think as a shared hosting like something acceptably secure. (of course, it also depends on what do you want to host)