Fraud protection

**worldofwisdom** · April 23rd, 2012, 18:23

Hello, I'm Natalie Hedo... my manager wanted me to post this here

What measures do other free hosts use to protect against fraud and abuse.

we have...
DDOS Deflate
Rootkit
Mod_Security
CSF Firewall
Limit hourly emails to 15 with manual overide on justified request
Maxmind

**KoolHosting** · May 3rd, 2012, 03:39

I think those are fine for your manager free host, just got to watch users CPU usage

**worldofwisdom** · May 3rd, 2012, 15:06

Of course, but are there any others you would suggest.

**wswd** · May 3rd, 2012, 18:14

Those are all good options you list. You can also use call verify with Maxmind. It costs very little per call and will eliminate darn close to 100% of fraudulent orders.

The 15 emails per hour is absolutely ridiculous. Most companies are around 500+ emails per hours. 15 is just silly.

**ifastnet1** · June 2nd, 2012, 07:39

I agree Maxmind is good, but hard to justify for free hosting registrations based on the costs.

A custom abuse detection system would be better in the long run

**wswd** · June 2nd, 2012, 14:14

Originally Posted by ifastnet1

I agree Maxmind is good, but hard to justify for free hosting registrations based on the costs.

It's hard to justify the $0.005/query (Yes, that's 1/2 a cent), but it's easy to justify running a $300/mo. server and letting people use it for free?

I don't understand the logic there.

**don19** · June 3rd, 2012, 03:42

i agree Maxmind is the best fraud protection , but watch out your CPU load and mysql load, for free host, some of the client may overuse the resource

**RandyTHQ** · June 7th, 2012, 06:35

if you aint got the money to pay for max mind. go ahead and buy some skype credits and do verification calls. if you unable to do call fraud checks then check if the customer provides a valid address and do a look up for the IP address for proxies /VPN and also do check on its email address.

this cannot ensure that you be safe from frauds but its better then nothing,

**nosupporthost** · June 15th, 2012, 06:56

A few more things to add to your list

Suhosin (for hardening PHP)
ClamAV
Maldetect (these last 2 for scanning your server for malware uploads)

**abigel** · June 16th, 2012, 00:54

Dude
Thanks for sharing some free fraud web hosting service provider.
I may not be beneficial to go for Free hosting... Sometime you have to pay very hard. Because any hosting service provider can share your private data with other. Like you data of email for Email marketing and so many other ways are their.
So have to be care full for these type of trap.