What should a secure password look like?
To protect your account and data from unauthorized access, secure password protection is essential.
The fundamental security rules regarding your passwords (not just for your hosting.fr account) are essential to ensure the constant security of your data:
- The password should not contain your own name, your company’s name, or your email address, even in part.
- Avoid using the names of your children, partner, or pets, as well as easily guessable data like your birth date or year of birth.
- Use different passwords for different services. Although this requires more effort, your data will be much safer if you do not use the same password everywhere. Consider using a password manager like Keepass to manage your passwords.
- The longer you use a password, the higher the probability that it will be discovered by others. It is therefore recommended to regularly check if the passwords used for a long time meet current security standards.
- Do not share your credentials with others. If, for example, your webmaster needs access to the client interface or your web space, you can easily create a user with limited access rights.
- Avoid storing your passwords locally as much as possible, but enter them each time you log in. This makes it more difficult for others to log into your account in a moment of inattention. Password managers like Keepass help manage your credentials securely.
- After logging into public computers, be sure to log out afterward. Never save your credentials on a publicly accessible computer.
- Regularly check your computer for malware such as keyloggers or Trojans. Also, ensure that your operating system is up to date and that important security updates are installed regularly to close potential vulnerabilities.
Additionally, the hosting.fr client portal imposes minimum requirements when creating a new password to ensure a fundamentally secure structure. These minimum requirements apply to all menu items where you can set a new password for a product (e.g., an email password, a database user, an FTP user, etc.).
The following criteria must be met when setting a new password to be able to use it on the hosting.fr platform:
- The password must be at least 10 characters long.
- It must contain at least one character from each of the following categories:
- lowercase letters (a-z)
- uppercase letters (A-Z)
- numbers (0-9)
- special characters
(+-=.,:;_!?$#%&~^*|/()@{}[]<>)
- lowercase letters (a-z)
It may also be advisable to implement two-factor authentication. For more information, see the Helpdesk article titled “What is two-factor authentication? And how to install it?"