I'm 6 for 5 at the moment - of the 6 companies I've hosted pet projects with over the years, 5 have been compromised at the control panel / infrastructure level

I'm 6 for 5 at the moment - of the 6 companies I've hosted pet projects with over the years, 5 have been compromised at the control panel / infrastructure level while I was a customer: * Layered Technologies, dedicated OpenBSD (Sep 17 2007) [0] * Hetzner, dedicated Linux (Oct 21 2010) [1] * Dreamhost, shared Linux (Jan 19 2012) [2] * Linode, VPS Linux (Apr 15 2013) [3] * OVH, VPS Linux via reseller (Apr 23 2013) [4] [0] http://what.entwinedstudios.com/?p=21 [1] http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/16021-Hackers-hit-Hetzner.html [2] http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-passwords-due-to-security-issue/ [3] http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/ [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632479 Food for thought.