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The Best PCI compliant hosting companies can be hard to find. You want one that is reliable, knows what they are doing, and has a fair price. Of the PCI compliant hosts we have reviewed, the top 3 are listed below. Criteria used includes, security and hardening, customer service (are they full service, or do they expect you to know everything), and reliability (uptime).
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| Rank | Web Hosting Provider | PCI Compliant | Offsite Backups | Free PCI Scanning |
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Yes | Yes | Yes |
Rating: 5 PCI Compliant Hosting, by Penguin Web Hosting, is the #1 host for PCI compliance. They have a shared PCI compliant plan for $19.95/mo and a single and dual dedicated server option. If you go with their dual server solution, they set it up in such a way that will impress even the most senior Linux admin.
In addition they will go the extra mile and show you how every thing works, and help with a lot of things that are beyond the technical support scope of the plan. Penguin Web Hosting seems like a smaller company with only a few thousand clients, so you are able to get prompt and personal service. You will often deal with the same tech, or a couple different techs, so they really understand who you are and what kind of service and support you are looking for. A few times we asked for some assistance with a PHP script, just ot see what they would say, and they wrote back having already fixed the issue.
As far as price goes, they are not the cheapest place, but not the most expensive either, and value wise they are a great deal, for example they will scan you server daily even though the minimum for PCI compliance is quarterly.
Penguin Web Hosting will also patch the servers regularly, or if a major security exploit is announced, they will do an emergency upgrade that same day.
The only negative, if that's what you want to call it, is they use ACL's for SSH (they disable FTP by default) and cpanel access and make you send them your IP to add to the ACL before you can access SSH (to upload files via WinSCP, scp, or rsync) or access cpanel, I guess that's a good thing though.
They also offer PCI Compliant Hosting for ZenCart and PCI Compliant Hosting for OScommerce, as well as many other shopping carts. |
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Rating: 4.4 CHIhost not only does PCI compliant hosting plans, but they even do HIIPA and SOX compliant plans. Located in Chicago, Illinois, your server will be on the heart of the Internet backbone, which ensures fast load times and low latency.
CHIhost are experts in network security and have Cisco certified employees.
Some nice features about the CHIhost datacenter are they have a 3 door key card access system, along with a biometric thumb scanner, as well as about 10 security camera (monitored by on-site security 24x7) on the way to the server room, where all the servers are in locked cabinents. |
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Rating: 4.2 Advanced Network Hosts is an oldie in the industry, having started in 2001 they know what it takes to provide a secure environment. ANH has several security certified personal on staff, to do the intial setup and hardening of your server, as well as the regular updates.
ANH specializes in building their servers custom with top of the line parts everything for the best CPU's to the best power supplies, and even using solid copper CPU heatsinks.
Our PCI server with ANH was setup within 2 business days, and passed the PCI scan on the first try. |
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