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Website security included

Secure web hosting.
Protection at every layer.

Your website needs more than a secure connection. Cenmax brings together DDoS protection, a smart firewall and active file and process protection, with a team ready to help when you need it.

Free migration ยท Free malware cleaning ยท 100-day money-back guarantee

Your security layersIncluded
Free SSL 30-day backups
How the included protections work together. Illustration, not a live security report.
1 Tbps+ DDoS protectionReal-time file-change scanning24x7 supportFree malware cleaning

Protection before and within your website

Secure web hosting with more than one line of defence.

Unwanted traffic, repeated login attempts and malicious files create different problems. Each security layer has a specific job, so your hosting can address threats in more than one place.

Help filter attack traffic

1 Tbps+ DDoS protection helps defend your hosting against traffic floods that try to make your website unavailable.

Network layer

Screen web requests

The AI-powered web application firewall, or WAF, helps filter harmful requests before they reach your application.

Request layer

Reduce repeated login attacks

Brute force protection helps limit attempts to break into your website by repeatedly guessing login details.

Login protection

Watch for malicious file changes

Malware Guard scans file changes in real time to help detect malicious content as files change on your hosting.

File layer

Quarantine malicious processes

Process Guard quarantines malicious processes, helping contain harmful activity running in the hosting environment.

Process layer

Encrypt visitor connections

Free SSL enables HTTPS, encrypting data between your website and its visitors. It complements the other security layers.

Connection layer

Security tools reduce risk. No hosting service can promise to stop every attack or prevent every interruption.

Help when something needs attention

Cleaning and recovery are part of your hosting.

If you suspect an infection or need an earlier website version, contact our team. You get free malware cleaning, 30 days of backups and free restores.

Talk to the team
  1. 01

    Tell us what changed

    Share the affected pages, recent changes and any messages you have seen. This helps the team investigate.

  2. 02

    Review the recovery option

    Cleaning or a restore may be appropriate. Review the available backup and any recent data before restoring.

  3. 03

    Check your website and access

    Check important pages after recovery. Update affected software and review passwords and user access to address the cause.

A clear shared responsibility

DDoS protected hosting with people ready to help.

Keep your application, themes and plugins current. Use strong passwords and give access only to people who need it. Our hosting protections support that work, with human help available 24x7.

Get help from our support team, with a 120-second average response.

Move with help from our team

Free website migration gives you a supported starting point. Your hosting also includes NVMe storage, a free CDN and edge caching, generous compute resources and a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Understand the uptime commitment

MaxPage helps you plan and write your website content.

MaxPage is an AI-powered SEO tool included with your hosting. Find keywords your customers search for and use AI to help write content for your website. You can plan useful content around the topics your audience cares about.

1,000 monthly creditsFor keyword research and content writing

Activate MaxPage manually using the steps in your welcome email.

Choose a home for your website, close to your audience.

You can choose USA, EU, Singapore, Australia or India as your datacenter location when you order your hosting.

  • United StatesUSA
  • European UnionEU
  • SingaporeSG
  • AustraliaAU
  • IndiaIN
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Start with your main audience

Choose the location closest to most of your visitors, rather than closest to you. A shorter distance can help your website respond faster.

02

Use your CDN for a wider reach

Your included CDN brings eligible content closer to visitors around the world. The server location still matters for live requests such as checkout and logins.

03

Ask us if you are unsure

Tell us where your customers are and how they use your website. Our team can help you choose a suitable location before you order.

Get help choosing a location

10,000+ customers
love Cenmax and stay.

Most hosting customers go shopping for a new host every once in a while. People who choose Cenmax tend to stop looking. It is hard not to fall in love with ultra-fast hosting backed by a team that genuinely cares about your success.

4.9 out of 5 · hosting customers since 2014
About 14 months in, running 12 or so client sites. I came for the SSH and WP-CLI access and stayed for the one-click staging. Zero overnight downtime so far, which I genuinely could not say about my last host. Backups and SSL are baked in per account, so I'm not nickel-and-dimed on every site.
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Aarav Mehta Freelance WordPress Developer · Pune
Our app has NEVER loaded this fast. Seriously. We migrated on a Tuesday and by the end of the week two different customers had emailed asking what we'd changed. That just doesn't happen! Thrilled with it.
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Sarah Lindqvist Founder, Bright Solutions
So here's the thing, my old host crashed on me two Black Fridays in a row and I'd basically made peace with it happening again. This year we did our biggest day of sales ever and the site didn't so much as hiccup. They even did the migration for me; I handed over the login, went and made a coffee, and by the time I came back it was done.
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Daniel Okoye Owner, The Coffee House · WooCommerce
As an agency we run a little over 40 client sites on retainer, and provisioning a new one in MaxPanel is genuinely quick. What stands out most, however, is the transparency of the pricing. The quoted rate is the rate we pay, with no surprises at renewal and no awkward conversations with clients about features that turn out to be paid extras.
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Priya Nair Director, Creative Studio
I almost didn't write a review, but I've been here long enough that it felt right to. I started the blog on a whim, grabbed the free domain, and fully expected to move on once it grew. Two years and around 80k readers a month later, here I still am. The support folks have stayed up with me through a couple of late-night panics, and they've always been so kind about it.
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Tomรกs Rivera Travel blogger
I went in skeptical (cheaper usually means oversold servers and slow tickets, in my experience). It took a few weeks before I stopped expecting something to break. What shifted it for me was a Saturday-night ticket answered in roughly ten minutes, by a person who'd clearly read what I sent. It's not flawless, there's no dark mode in the dashboard yet, but the fundamentals are solid.
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Nguyen Minh Backend Engineer · Hanoi
For a small nonprofit like ours, every cost we keep down means a little more going toward the people we serve. The hosting has been kind to our budget. I'll also admit the environmental side won us over: they plant a tree on renewals and give 1% to climate causes, and our board was glad to be able to pass that along to our supporters.
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Rebecca Hall Executive Director, Hope Foundation
moved over, site's way faster, haven't thought about hosting since. that's the review.
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Karthik R. Indie hacker
My portfolio is wall-to-wall high-res photography, and it used to load like it was wading through mud. The CDN and caching changed that almost the moment I switched. Now clients tell me the site feels โ€œexpensiveโ€, and for a photographer, that's pretty much the whole game.
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Elena Vasquez Portrait & travel photographer
I'll be upfront, I'm not a tech person in the slightest, I run a gym and not a web company. When I moved my booking site over I figured I'd be completely lost, but the chat team walked me through every step and handled the bits I didn't follow. It loads quicker now and I've stopped thinking about it, which is all I really wanted.
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Marcus Bryant Owner, City Fitness
Came over from one of the big cloud platforms mainly to cut my bill, and I assumed I'd be giving up performance to save the money. It was the other way round. What one project cost me there now covers three projects here comfortably, and the panel is a lot less of a maze to get around. Only regret is not doing it a year sooner.
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Omar Haddad Self-taught developer
Been hosting with this lot since 2016, and in all that time I've had maybe two reasons to contact support. Both sorted the same day. I'm not someone who normally bothers writing reviews, but loyalty like mine takes a fair bit to earn, and they've earned it.
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David Whitman Owner, web design studio

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Security hosting FAQ

Know what protects your website.

How does your team help with hosting and website issues?

You can come to us whenever something is not working, even if you are not sure what is causing it. We proactively monitor, maintain and secure the server environment, and take care of server-side issues when they arise. For website issues, we can help troubleshoot, explain what we find and suggest a way forward. If the solution needs a change to your website code, we can share our findings with you or your developer to help you make that change. Our team remains available for questions and guidance along the way.

Do you charge extra if my website exceeds the estimated visits?

No. We do not charge visit-overage fees if your website exceeds the estimated visits for your plan. The visit figures are estimates based on ideal caching and website optimization, not guaranteed capacity. Real-world performance varies. Some websites may struggle to reach the estimate, while many well-optimized websites can handle several times more traffic. Your website, caching and optimization determine how much traffic your plan can support. Your plan resources still apply, so choose capacity around your actual workload.

What does secure web hosting include?

Cenmax includes an AI-powered web application firewall, brute force protection, real-time file-change scanning with Malware Guard, Process Guard, free SSL, 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection and free malware cleaning. You also get 30 days of backups and free restores.

How does DDoS protected hosting help my website?

A DDoS attack sends large amounts of unwanted traffic to overwhelm a service. Cenmax includes 1 Tbps+ DDoS protection to help filter attack traffic. This is a protection capability, not a guarantee that every attack can be stopped or that your website will never be interrupted.

What is the difference between Malware Guard and Process Guard?

Malware Guard scans file changes in real time to help detect malicious files. Process Guard quarantines malicious processes running on the hosting environment. They cover different forms of suspicious activity and work alongside the firewall and other protections.

Is malware cleaning included?

Yes. Malware cleaning is free with your hosting. Contact support if you suspect an infection. Cleaning does not remove the need to update your website software, review user access and address the cause of an infection.

Can I restore an earlier version of my website?

Cenmax keeps 30 days of backups and provides free restores. Ask support to help you choose an available recovery point. A restore may replace changes made after that point, so review the timing carefully, especially for orders and other recent data.

Do I still need to maintain my website software?

Yes. Keep your application, themes and plugins updated, use strong passwords and limit access to people who need it. Hosting security adds protection, but it cannot make every application safe. Application development work is not included in the hosting service.

Can you move my existing website?

Yes. Website migration is free. Contact our team to plan the move and check your website after migration. Support is available 24x7, with a 120-second average response. Individual response times vary.

Protection included with hosting

Give your website a protected foundation.

Get active security, recovery tools and support in one hosting service. Free migration and a 100-day money-back guarantee help you get started.

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Find the features your website needs.

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