How to Secure Your Website: Website Security Best Practices
June 10th, 2026
Website security and protecting customer data are essential for the success, reputation, and smooth operation of any business. In this article, we’ll show you how to back up your website, maintain a valid SSL certificate, protect your web forms from spam, and comply with privacy protection requirements.
Why Website Security Matters
A secure website builds trust with your customers and protects both your business data and your clients’ personal information. Choosing reliable hosting and taking a few quick, affordable preventive measures can make the difference between dealing with outages and legal issues — or avoiding them entirely. Learn how to protect your website and your customers easily with Webnode.
Website Security Best Practices
Use this checklist to learn how to secure your website effectively.
Website security checklist: what a website needs to be secure
Reliable Hosting
At Webnode, we use continuous monitoring and automated testing. Our systems are regularly checked by bots from multiple locations to ensure everything runs smoothly. This minimizes technical outages and always keeps your website available to customers.
Automatic Website Backups
Automatic backups help prevent unwanted data loss, whether you’re building a new website or updating an existing one. Have you ever accidentally deleted important content? With automatic backups, you’re covered — you can restore your website from an available backup at any time. Voilà — your deleted content is back.
Automatic website backups: your safety net
Automatic backups are an add-on service available with premium plans. Backup pricing varies slightly depending on the plan, as each plan supports different amounts of website content. You can purchase this feature:
- together with your first service activation
- when renewing your plan
- when upgrading your plan
SSL Certificate: What Is It?
An SSL certificate is a digital confirmation that your website is secure and trustworthy. It works through the HTTPS protocol, which encrypts the data transferred between your website and its visitors. Thanks to an SSL certificate, your customers can trust that their personal information is protected from unauthorized access.
Customers trust websites hosted on secure domains.
Webnode automatically renews SSL certificates every 3 months. The SSL certificate is included in the price of domain registration or domain renewal managed through Webnode.
If your domain is managed by another provider, it’s important to configure your DNS records correctly. You can find your DNS settings in your project administration.
How do you know if a website has an SSL certificate? If a website is not secure, browsers will display a warning and the HTTPS protocol in the URL address will appear crossed out.
Website with an invalid SSL certificate: browser warning
Form Protection
Protected web forms help eliminate spam, save time, and ensure you never miss an important customer inquiry. Most importantly, they help prevent malware being distributed through forms that could potentially damage your computer.
Simply enabling premium security significantly reduces the amount of spam your website receives. The feature blocks approximately 400 unwanted messages per hour.
The service also offers manual form protection settings through reCAPTCHA and IP address filtering.
Eliminate spam from your website forms
Premium website security is an add-on service available with premium plans. You can purchase it through your administration panel:
- together with your first service activation
- when renewing your plan
- when upgrading your plan
- separately (if you already have a service plan)
Strong and Secure Passwords
All passwords used to access your Webnode accounts are encrypted and cannot be converted into readable text form.
The more unique and random a password is, the more secure it becomes. Instead of memorizing complex passwords with many different characters, store them in a password manager where you can also generate strong passwords easily.
If you sign in to Webnode after a longer period or from a new device, we may ask you to confirm your identity via email as part of our two-factor authentication process.
We also monitor potential password misuse involving email accounts. If the system detects suspicious activity, we will prompt you to change your password to help protect your email account.
Emails sent to your clients through webmail are encrypted to help prevent the misuse of sensitive information.
Website Updates
Another important principle of website security is keeping your website updated. At Webnode, we regularly update the platform and automatically adapt to new browser versions to ensure your website always displays correctly online.
If your website uses external elements such as calendars, live chat tools, or booking systems, Webnode cannot guarantee their updates or functionality. Malfunctioning third-party widgets may negatively affect your website’s appearance.
You can avoid this by choosing products from our partner companies — for example, the booking system SimplyBook.me. Together with our partners, we guarantee updates for plugins purchased through Webnode.
Privacy Policy Compliance
Complying with privacy protection regulations, especially regarding sensitive customer data, is equally important. The iubenda plugin helps you automatically generate privacy policy and cookie policy for your website in accordance with current legislation. The plugin also includes a cookie banner.
The iubenda compliance solution is integrated with Webnode and can be activated for both premium and free websites.
Tip: With Webnode, you can also easily add data consent to your contact forms.
Conclusion
Webnode offers reliable hosting, regular SSL certificate renewals for your domain, and automatic system updates. This ensures your website remains secure, trustworthy, and professional-looking for your customers.
You can further strengthen your website security with:
- automatic backups
- premium website security
- the iubenda plugin
Log in to your account and activate your security services today
Simona Zelinka is a content writer with a background in journalism and environmental nonprofits in the Czech Republic and Estonia. She has over 3 years of experience in copywriting and focuses on interviews and articles about web design, digital marketing, and plant-based food. A lover of long-distance mountain treks, she’s currently renovating a cabin in the Moravian Karst with her husband — a project inspired by her travels through British Columbia and Alberta.