# Wordpress + Discourse using Digital Ocean and Serverpilot

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 30, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wordpress-discourse-using-digital-ocean-and-serverpilot/84246 "2018-03-30T18:13:35Z")\
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> [@thephotographyblog](#):
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> Cloudways doesn’t do that first of all. Don’t go throwing around aspersions.

Their stuff is all around the internet.  
https://embed.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/8pnbyq/web_hosting_nightmare_cloudways_was_stealing_my/?embed=true&ref_source=embed&ref=share

> [@thephotographyblog](#):
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> ServerPilot connects automatically and provisions your server without a human getting involved.

That exactly is the “agent based service” they install their serverpilot agent on to your server which is a threat in itself. It runs with root privileges on your server and not too long until one of their employee does something like cloudways and injects your servers with malware.

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