Ssl For My Website. what is this for ecommerce site

[enhu 0]

Once i get to host a site i'm planning sell tutorials to learn our dialect. This includes video tutorials, sample scripts and etc for subscribers. I have learn that I must register SSL, what is this by the way?And does Xisto - Support this?

[xpress 0]

SSL is the Secure Socket Layer protocl. It is security technology to maintain security between your browser and the remote webserver. With SSL everything your browser sends(by that website) will be encrypted and the web server decrypts it. So...the data sent by your browser will be safe. Almost all commerce sites are using it. It guarentees secure transfer of Credit Card details and other personal details.

 

Just for example take paypal or gmail sites. You'll see https:// instead of just http://. This https indicates that the connection is using SSL. SSL is good for ecommerce sites. But not useful for ordinary sites because that sssl method is somewhat slow. (because encryption and decryption process). So choose as per your needs.

 

And Xisto - Web Hosting supports ssl. But it is additional package. 39USD/annually at Xisto - Web Hosting.

Edited December 6, 2008 by xpress (see edit history)

[enhu 0]

What dyou mean when you said "choose as per your needs."

[xpress 0]

What dyou mean when you said "choose as per your needs."

I mean....if you sell products online and that involves Sensitive information like Credit card details or any other details then choose SSL. If you use that site for just for support and advertising, and sell products locally in stores like that...no need for SSL.
Since you want to sell your products online, you need SSL. (Actually I didn't read your starting post clearly)

[SofiaComp 0]

For an e-commerce site SSL is a must, as a client of the oscommerce site my self i want to be sure that the information i submit about my payment is not seenable by third parties over the network, and these days a lot of online stores set SSL over http, simply when a customer comes he feels more secure and you become trustworthy trader for them. I think that every self respecting web hosting company offer SSL package of some kind in their services. I advice you to get one.Oh, and one more funny thing. Make sure you make a backup of your certificate, that is not happening often but if your server crashes you'll lose it.

Edited February 5, 2009 by SofiaComp (see edit history)

[Ash-Bash 0]

Sell tutorials?Bad idea there are too many places now to get them for free..... You would make no money .