SSL is a type of digital certificate that provides authentication for a website to ensure the sensitive data provided by your website’s visitors will be transferred over a secure network.
When doing business online, it’s important that your customers have full confidence in accessing your website and making transactions through it. SSL certificates are the bodyguards of the digital world – provides privacy, security and data integrity for both the website and visitors personal information.
Google also favours websites with SSL certificates as it increases the site’s credibility and helps with SEO ranking – resulting in the website getting more visibility. That is why all serious online businesses must have an SSL certificate to get ahead.
When doing business online, it’s important that your customers have full confidence in accessing your website and making transactions through it. SSL certificates are the bodyguards of the digital world – provides privacy, security and data integrity for both the website and visitors personal information.
Billing cycle for SSL certificates is only Annually. Prices include GST.
Free SSL certificates are valid for only 3 months and are provided by non-profit Certificate Authorities (CA). Our free SSL is powered by Let’s Encrypt which is a leading non-profit CA that provides SSL/TLS certificates. Even though free SSL is accessible to all websites, it does not come with support or warranty – absolutely no protection for your website’s end user.
Paid SSL certificates are issued for 1-year or 2-year terms and are signed by a trustworthy certificate authorities (CA). They come with support and warranty. The warranty is a highly-desired insurance for your website’s visitors against loss of money when they submit a payment on an SSL-secured site and is an extra assurance that your website is safe to conduct business transactions online. This is reflected in the Site Seal that comes with a commercial certificate.
A visitor keys in your website URL into their browser.
The browser tries to connect to the website that is secured with an SSL certificate. The browser requests the website to identify itself.
The website sends the browser a copy of its SSL certificate.
The browser verifies the SSL certificate and ascertains if it is trustworthy. If it is, the browser sends a message to the website.
The website responds with a digitally-signed acknowledgement for the visitor to start an SSL-encrypted session.
Encrypted data is shared between the browser and the website.
Host Geek is here to help, with a range of cost-effective solutions to match every business. We’ll provide step-by-step instructions and free support, even help with Installation, if necessary. Not only are you protecting your customers, you’re protecting your business and yourself.
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