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Final Recommendations

Now that we've covered lots of security considerations, it's time for some final thoughts and recommendations. Most of this chapter is filled with advice and thinking that is only tangentially related to security, but important nonetheless to keeping a secure environment.

We'll cover topics that are easy to miss. For one, there are a whole legion of issues related to secure shared hosting, and since most PHP developers will find themselves hosting an app on shared hosting, they're worth considering. Second, maintaining separate development and production servers, each with its own security settings, will ...

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