{"id":3977,"date":"2025-12-31T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/creating-a-secure-password\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:47","slug":"creating-a-secure-password","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/creating-a-secure-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Secure Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong password helps protect your account, website and email from unauthorised access.<\/p>\n<p>Use a password that is long, unique and difficult to guess. Avoid names, birthdays, company names, domain names or anything someone could easily connect to you.<\/p>\n<p>A good password should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be at least 12 characters long.<\/li>\n<li>Use a mix of letters, numbers and symbols.<\/li>\n<li>Be different from passwords you use elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid common words or predictable substitutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using a password manager can make this much easier. It can create strong passwords for you and store them securely, so you do not have to remember every password yourself.<\/p>\n<p>If you think a password has been shared, guessed or reused somewhere unsafe, change it as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong password helps protect your account, website and email from unauthorised access. Use a password that is long, unique and difficult to guess.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[21],"class_list":["post-3977","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-cpanel-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3977\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}