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JWHost SSL Certificates
MAXIMISE TRUST, PEACE OF MIND, AND YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION
THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘HTTPS’
Why you need an SSL Certificate
Having an SSL certificate – giving your website URLs beginning with ‘https’ is a necessity.
If you run a site where a user has to enter information – such as a store – not having an SSL certificate could harm your business. Users are less likely to trust a non-‘https’ website. Google has been encouraging web designers to implement ‘https everywhere’ since 2014, and sites without SSLs are marked as ‘not secure’.
You could easily lose the majority of your traffic if your website doesn’t have an SSL certificate, Google and other search engines will steer it’s customers (your customers!) away from your website as it’s not seen as trustworthy.
How SSLs 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. It can be used for websites and email systems.
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 web server
- If the the website is secured by SSL, the web server 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 web server and exchanges the necessary encryption information: a key and hashing cypher – basically a code!
- Encrypted data is shared between the browser and the web server.
SECURE YOUR WEBSITE
Our SSL Certificates
We provide free SSL certificates through Let’s Encrypt. These require you to use our free nameservers, which are based on the Google UK infrastructure.
They are ‘wildcard’ SSLs. Wildcard SSLs cover all subdomains of a website – like ‘subdomain.yoursite.com’ – so you only need one certificate.
Extended SSL is the highest class of SSL available today. It lends more credibility and authority to your website compared to a Free or Simple SSL Certificate. Extended SSLs include ‘extended validation’. This is where checks are made on the company by the certificate authority. These help prove that the website’s owner is a genuine and legal company.
Only an Extended SSL displays the business name and registered country in the browser interface. You can see an example of this on our site or other sites, such as Paypal.
Our certificates use the TLS security protocol (v. 1.2), not the the older SSL protocol. We use the term ‘SSL Certificate’ simply because it’s the phrase most people are familiar with.
Compare SSL Certificates
MAXIMISE TRUST, PEACE OF MIND, AND YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION
Free SSL
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https://your-domain.com
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Improve Google Ranking
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Padlock icon for your site visitors
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Simple, one-click activation
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Unlimited SSL Certificates for Resellers
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Powered by: Let's Encrypt
Simple SSL
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https://your-domain.com
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Improve Google Ranking
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Padlock icon for your site visitors
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Simple, one-click activation
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Domain Validation (DV) Certificate
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Ideal for Ecommerce Sites
Extended SSL
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https://your-domain.com
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Improve Google Ranking
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Business Name in Address Bar
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Underwritten $1.5 million Warranty
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Ideal for Ecommerce Sites
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Extended Validation (EV) Certificate
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