SSL is a cryptography protocol in application level of OSI basic reference module..If you have SSL certificate for your site and would like to manage it then cPanel will help you. cPanel have SSL/TLS manager using which will help you to manage your digital certificates. It help you to generate private keys and CSR without any intervention from your web host to allow you to buy SSL or TLS certificates. If you are technically sound then you can install your digital cert yourself. Usually you put SSL onto your site if you want to secure encrypted transaction through your site such as accessing credit/debit card data or any highly sensitive data.
SSL certificates come with different encryption levels such as 128bit or 256 bit, higher then number more secure is your SSL and more complex encryption of data is carried out. Prices differs from provider to provide depending on encryption level.
If your site is ecommerce site where user are giving you their credit/debit card details for gettting your service then you should have SSL certificate on your site which will ensure security for your site, you should also display a seal on your website from the vendor that you bought your certificate from saying that your website is secure so that your clients can trust you.
If you have SSL installed on to your site then for your web url will starts with https rather then http. ’s’ stands for secure site.
All SSL certificates requires an dedicated IP on which they are installed for your domain.
Thus SSL/TLS Manager of cpanel is very good tool for managing all issues related to your SSL certificates.
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This post was written by on August 4, 2008
