Free Wildcard SSL Included
Why should you have to pay to keep your site safe? We believe that all websites should be secure and any information that passes between your visitor web browser and the server is encrypted. That’s why we include a free wildcard SSL certificate with every hosting package as well as offering Simple and Extended SSL certificates for added peace of mind.
A secure connection is vital for any website that requests or stores personal information such as contact details or payment information. SSL/TLS is the globally recognised standard for secure data encryption between server and browser. All our SSL certificates are provided and verified by leading security experts Let’s Encrypt and GeoTrust.
How do SSL’s work?
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates are used to encrypt the information travelling to and from the hosting server. This is instead of sending that data by plain text – which could be intercepted.
A very simple explanation of how SSL works would be:
- A browser tries to connect to a website
- The browser first contacts a DNS server to find where the site is hosted, then contacts that webserver
- If the website is secured by SSL, the webserver sends a copy of the website’s SSL certificate to the browser
- The browser checks to see whether the certificate is genuine with the issuer of the certificate. It needs to be a trusted certificate authority, such as Geotrust
- If it checks out OK, the browser sends a message to the webserver and exchanges the necessary encryption information: a key and hashing cypher – basically a code!
- Encrypted data is shared between the browser and the webserver.
What is a Wildcard SSL Certificate?
Wildcard SSLs cover all subdomains of a website – like ‘subdomain.yoursite.com’ – so you only need one certificate.
If you’d prefer to use different nameservers, you can use our Simple SSL certificates. We source both our Simple and Extended SSLs through Geotrust – one of the leading certificate authorities.
- Wildcard SSL
- Included with Hosting
- Improve Google Ranking
- Padlock for Site Visitors
- Simple One-Click Activation
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- Simple SSL
- £ 50 /yr
- Improve Google Ranking
- Padlock for Site Visitors
- Simple One-Click Activation
- Domain Validation (DV) Certificate
- Ideal for Ecommerce Websites
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- Extended< SSL/li>
- £ 300 /yr
- Improve Google Ranking
- Padlock for Site Visitors
- Simple One-Click Activation
- Extended Validation (EV) Certificate
- Ideal for Ecommerce Websites
- Underwritten $1.5million warrant
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