Windows Shared Hosting Security Problems

Hi,

I've been reading these forums for a while now... a lot of very interesting and useful stuff. However, I've always been happy with the hosting of my site until recently, and have never had a pressing reason for wanting to change.

However, I recently had a four day outage to my site. The hosting company (which shall remain nameless, for now) put this down to a security problem which meant they had to take down the shared Windows server and go through all the sites on the server looking for the site that had bad code which caused the security outage. I also has problems with malicious javascript being injected into my pages prior to this.

I quote from the hosting company "Unfortunately this is a shared hosting solution and by its very nature, it means that poor code affects all sites on that web server. .... The vulnerabilities of ASP, MS-SQL and .Net are well documented." They then proceeded to try to sell me a dedicated server (which I believe will likely be too expensive for my needs).

I'm no expert on hosting, but this doesn't sound right to me. Is all Windows shared hosting afflicted with these kinds of security problems? or only when it's not set up right? I need reliability, but not absolute 100% bulletproof uptime if it comes with a dedicated server pricetag. I do need to avoid outages of a number of hours/days (!!) however

Hopefully one of the experts here can put me right I can't believe that Windows hosting security is that bad that no company can have a shared hosting product that avoids the aforementioned problems. What do you think?

Any comments would be very much appreciated.

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