SSL Certificate

[godoit]

Hi guys.
Is there a way of putting a SSL certificate on a madasafish website. A friend of my dad has asked me but my knowledge is cpanel and madasafish doesnt seem to have it.
cheers guys

 

[arnydnxluk]

From the state of the Madafish website, I doubt it! Or at least, it's going to cost you whereas most modern shared hosting providers will offer free SSL. Have you tried contacting their support? That said, an idea would be to use Cloudflare - it's free and will add HTTPS between the visitor's browser and the Cloudflare network. Not great for true security but works if you want HTTPS on information websites for SEO purposes etc.

 

[webhostuk]

Sure you can have 2 choices FREE SSL letsencrypt or paid one, you have many options with the paid version.

 

[antropy]

Is there a way of putting a SSL certificate on a madasafish website.

Why are you asking in this forum rather than here?
http://www.madasafish.com/contact/

 

[godoit]

Why are you asking in this forum rather than here?
http://www.madasafish.com/contact/

because they closed down and are now some sort of madasafish / plusnet hybrid and cant figure it out

 

[antropy]

because they closed down

Well I think the very obvious answer is move hosting to somewhere else.

 

[godoit]

Thats my opinion as well, thanks

 

[antropy]

I mean they still have an animated gif logo on their website for christ's sake

 

[Paul Norman]

Well I think the very obvious answer is move hosting to somewhere else.

This is the correct answer.

And it is highly likely that your new hosting will have SSL included in the price.

As an aside, not having SSL is going to be a significant problem in gaining traffic.

 

[webit]

SSL is becoming a must have for any site in the mighty G's eyes - we hosted with the same folks for years (old UKBF member - CS New Media for those who've been on here some time - now changed hands a couple of times ) with a free Let's Encrypt cert thrown in.

 

[Awinner2]

Interesting article here on what Google is planning on Chrome browser from July 2018. Also talks about the various levels of SSL certificates and which type of website needs them.

http://dnjournal.com/articles/companies/2018/sslstore/sslstore.htm

 

[Sal-FastCow]

If they are no longer assisting or are around, it's better to coup your data and move before hell let's loose.

Best of luck as most if not all providers now-a-days provide free Let's Encrypt certs!

 

[MaureenP]

Hi guys.
Is there a way of putting a SSL certificate on a madasafish website. A friend of my dad has asked me but my knowledge is cpanel and madasafish doesnt seem to have it.
cheers guys

Yes, there are many ways to put SSL certificate on the medasafish website. If you as well as site owner don't have knowledge about how to install SSL then you should go with ClickSSL where you get free installation support.

 

[ukbf0001]

Im updating a few domains to ssl. Letsencypt.org seems a good way to start , but the shared host the domains are on says that for an ssl - they need to be on a dedicated IP address (additional cost per year).
SO my choices are :-
1. Buy the SSL from the hosting company + plus dedicated IP address per year
2. Use Cloudflare on the domains - using the free option.
3. Move to a host that offers the option of using letsencrypt within cpanel. I have a reseller account - so would need something similar - open to recommendations

Thoughts / opinions please

 

[antropy]

1. Buy the SSL from the hosting company + plus dedicated IP address per year
2. Use Cloudflare on the domains - using the free option.
3. Move to a host that offers the option of using letsencrypt within cpanel

Depending on how good your web host are with other things, I'd probably go for 2.

 

[ukbf0001]

Depending on how good your web host are with other things, I'd probably go for 2.

Thanks for the reply - I'm doing that today - just to see how it goes. As getting a static IP for every domain on my account is a non starter. Cloudfalre seems the easiest option so far.

 

[antropy]

Yeah, there's no need, we have loads of sites on a shared IP that have SSL.

Paul

 

[Steven001]

I mean they still have an animated gif logo on their website for christ's sake

It's a flash plugin... looks well dodgy.

 

[UACU]

How can we get a free SSL ?

 

[arnydnxluk]

How can we get a free SSL ?

"Let's Encrypt" - ask your web hosting provider about it. Some install Comodo certs via cPanel but your hosting provider will know what you're talking about either way.

The websites in your signature appear to be hosted with SiteGround. You can read more about this here: https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/cpanel/lets-encrypt/

 

[Inva]

As mentioned, cPanel offers free SSL too through Comodo. It should not be hard at all to get a free SSL either through cPanel or Let's Encrypt. I would be wary of a host who does not offer free SSL these days.

But keep in mind that the certificate is DV (domain validation) which is not really of any value besides showing the green address bar. The purpose of certificates is to verify the business's (sp?) existence, so when you see a certificate on a website you are visiting for the first time, you can know whether it is a legitimate business or not.

Roughly:
DV (domain validation) does not verify anything
OV (organisation validation) verifies that the owner of the domain is indeed a registered business with an address etc. (so it is a documents verification)
EV (extended validation - the good one) verifies even more paperwork regarding existence of the business. For this one, the certificate authority may even send someone to actually visit the business.

 

[MaureenP]

As mentioned, cPanel offers free SSL too through Comodo. It should not be hard at all to get a free SSL either through cPanel or Let's Encrypt. I would be wary of a host who does not offer free SSL these days.

But keep in mind that the certificate is DV (domain validation) which is not really of any value besides showing the green address bar. The purpose of certificates is to verify the business's (sp?) existence, so when you see a certificate on a website you are visiting for the first time, you can know whether it is a legitimate business or not.

Roughly:
DV (domain validation) does not verify anything
OV (organisation validation) verifies that the owner of the domain is indeed a registered business with an address etc. (so it is a documents verification)
EV (extended validation - the good one) verifies even more paperwork regarding existence of the business. For this one, the certificate authority may even send someone to actually visit the business.

But I think free SSL certificate providers do not give the EV SSL certificate free of charge. For this, you must use paid EV SSL. The cost remains high but worth to increase customer confidence.

 

[Inva]

You are right, as i said the free ones are DV. I guess it's my mistake as i should have said they provide the green lock not green address bar.

 

[arnydnxluk]

But I think free SSL certificate providers do not give the EV SSL certificate free of charge. For this, you must use paid EV SSL. The cost remains high but worth to increase customer confidence.

Does it really increase customer confidence though?

For a technical person who understands all of this stuff, I think it helps, as you know you're on the right website. For everybody else, I'm not sure they pay much attention.

Gmail and Amazon (to pick a couple of the tabs I currently have open) don't use an EV cert and don't seem to have a problem with customer confidence, perhaps that's simply because they're already a known name. Personally, I'm not sure the average user would really notice.