Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : SSL Certificates

[bub307]

Hi, we are thinking of starting a hosting company and was wondering what type of certificate we need to secure the sever and our clients can us to secure their carts? I see other hosting companies calling it a shared certificate. Sorry for the double post put it in the wrong area.

[pixeldawn]

You can get a RapidSSL license from http://www.namecheap.com

[bub307]

Are you talking about a reseller lic.

[chrda]

Namecheap sells to end users
You can start with a RapidSSL for your own client portal.

For your customer, you might want to choose a own private Ip for each customer, and recommend them do buy a SSL Certificate them self

There is some SSL Certificates that are multidomain, you can look at this:
http://www.positivessl.com/ssl-certi...rtificate.html

But i havent tested that one.

[webenthusiast]

If you are using cPanel/WHM you can set a single domain ssl certificate as the shared certificate for that server (I'm sure you can do this with other control panels, but I only have experience with WHM). In this case, there is no need to purchase a wild cart cert. If you chose to do it this way, you could use a domain specifically for the shared ssl (the domain would need a dedicated ip address) and your customers could use it in the following fashion: https://www.domain.com/~username/cart.html. They would just have to make sure they created any links to secure areas of their site in this way. However, this method should really only be used for a secure sign up or login that is unrelated to commerce. If a transaction will be taking place, you should recommend to your customers that they purchase their own private ssl certificate and upgrade to a dedicated ip address