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I often have to develop server applications for clients and its easy, especially during development to have processes left around listening on ports. There is a slow way and a quick way to kill any such unwanted processes off.

When deploying updates to a large website (Joomla or Magento sites get pretty big), active clients can be a real pain. Their sessions will break and, at worst, orders or other important data can be lost as files are changed during the deployment.

To avoid these problems, the site is usually taken down for maintenance during the deployment but there is a better way.

There are lots of online references available to help secure your site but many of them will try to sell you a 'security scan' or other services and most have some axe to grind regarding a particular product or issue.

Here are four rules you can follow to help keep your site secure.