If you wish to use an SSL Certificate for your site, in order to protect the payment and login information that users post, you will need a Certificate Signing Request, or CSR. The Request contains all the info about the entity that will use the SSL in an encrypted form, such as the exact web address for the website, the Business/Organization name, physical and e-mail address. It has to be sent to a vendor, or Certificate Authority, which reviews the provided information and based on it, issues the SSL certificate. The actual SSL installation requires four bits of code - the certificate, the CSR, a specific private key that is generated together with the CSR and the SSL vendor private key. A website that has an SSL installed can be loaded with https:// instead of the usual http:// and the info submitted for the CSR will be viewed in standard text format through a web browser.
SSL Certificate Generator in Website Hosting
We provide SSL certificates along with our website hosting plans, so if you would like to secure the information your visitors send, you'll be able to get one right from your Hepsia Control Panel. With our SSL wizard, you will be able to type in the company/personal details which you would like to be associated with the certificate and our system will create the CSR as well as a specific private key. You'll receive an email message from our vendor in order to verify your order and after that, the SSL certificate will be installed automatically if you have selected this attribute in the wizard during your order. In this way, you will not have to do anything manually because our system will do the necessary and your unique certificate will be active quickly after that. Of course, should you wish to use a different SSL service provider, you can still use the CSR that you have created from your account.
SSL Certificate Generator in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel which is provided with our semi-dedicated server accounts has an integrated SSL certificate request generator, so in case you host a website that you want to secure, you will be able to obtain a new SSL with a few clicks. You'll need to type in the details for your certificate when it's not the same as the one you already have in the account and our system will generate the Certificate Signing Request as well as the private key associated with it. If you decide to obtain the SSL through us, you only have to choose the auto-configuration option during the order and our system will do the needed, so you will not have to set up the certificate manually. In the event that you wish to obtain the SSL from a different company, you just have to save the CSR code. Subsequently you will have to set up the certificate, yet if you've never done this before or you have any kind of issues, you will be able to contact us and we will set up the SSL within a couple of minutes.