Making sure my dev can’t access website recently built?

  • I have not always seen eye to eye with my developer and things have become fairly confrontational in the past. I’d like to make sure my site is not able to be recovered, transferred or held hostage in any way, shape or form.
    I’ve changed my hosting password and my www.remarpro.com password. Is there anything else I need to worry about?

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Hi,
    You can also check if there is any admin accounts created by them inside your wordpress website. Also, make sure to check your hosting FTP accounts / passwords – or just delete those FTP accounts if you don’t need them.

    This should prevent unfortunate things from happening.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter 1gcrazy

    (@1gcrazy)

    Yes, I found an admin account and thus prompted me to ask.
    Could you elaborate on hosting FTP accounts?
    Thank you!

    If you are using CPanel, you can login to your hosting and go to ‘FTP Accounts’. FTP account allow users to upload and delete files in your hosting. So it is better to check if there is any account created by your ex-developer.

    The following is some readup on ftp accounts in Cpanel – https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/78Docs/FTP+Accounts

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter 1gcrazy

    (@1gcrazy)

    Thank you for that! I’m seeing quite a few accounts. How do I know if there is one that is vulnerable?

    Thread Starter 1gcrazy

    (@1gcrazy)

    They all say, ftp.*website name*.com

    You can delete them all if you do not need to access your server via FTP =)

    Thread Starter 1gcrazy

    (@1gcrazy)

    I have no idea if I need them or not. Could he be hosting pictures off of the site and once the FTP is deleted, would they essentially be deleted?

    HI,

    Deleting FTP accounts will not affect the current files in your server.

    Just a side note, when deleting ftp accounts, you will be asked to delete the associated directory – do not delete the associated directory, just delete the ftp account.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by WebBuddy.
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