Benefits Of Using SSL And HTTPS For Your Online Business
You know, there are a lot of things you need to take care of when launching the first business on the Internet. Luckily, with the help of Wealthy Affiliate and the stuff that I found on the Internet, things become easier than ever. From registering a new domain or setting up a new website, those tasks can be done within a few minutes. Subsequently, your website that you will use for your online business will be ready to run!
But, have you ever heard about SSL and HTTPS? What is SSL, or HTTPS? What those things used for?
Well! Basically, when you visit a website, you need to enter its domain name, which is often starting with HTTP, right? HTTPS is quite similar to this type of protocol but comes with an extra security layer, which contributes to secure your website and its data on it. With the help of SSL certificate, all data that users submit on your website will be encrypted and protect their privacy.
For example, when using HTTP on an ecommerce website that asks users to provide credit card information, all those details won't be encrypted while transmitting from client's computer to the website server. That said, those critical information can be crack down somewhere and leak out. But when we switch to HTTPS, all those important data will automatically be encrypted and safe. It helps to avoid data leak and protect online safety of users who are using your service.
How To Set Up HTTPS On My Website?
There are many ways you can set up HTTPS on your website. But the most popular method is to purchase SSL certificate from trusted provider, such as Comodo SSL or InstantSSL and set up on your website. This method requires some technical skills. Besides, you can choose to use CloudFlare to enable HTTPS on your website automatically without needing set up anything. Instead, just need to change your DNS to CloudFlare and all is set!
While setting up and using HTTPS, you may confront some errors related to SSL or HTTPS on your web browser, such as Google Chrome. The most common error is "Your connection is not private", which will prevent you from accessing your website in some cases.
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If you are getting this error, read the following online guide to learn more about it and use appropriate solution to get it fixed.
If you purchase SSL certificate and set up on your web hosting account, I would recommend choosing 3-year to save more money and time as well. The point is that if you purchase 1-year period, you will need to renew and then spend time to reconfigure SSL certificate every year. It took me time to do those things, as well as caused some issues that I never want to happen.
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Yes, in these days SSL and HTTPS are really important when thinking about data safety and also search engine rankings.
I personally demanded SSL, because in the future i would be holding an ecommerce store section at my website too and i'm glad that wealthy affiliate offers that too.
Not sure if you're aware or not, but Premium members have free SSL for their domains hosted here at WA. All you do is go to the Site Manager and flip the switch.
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Hi, Kevin thank you for sharing much appreciated, I have been overlooking something so very helpful. For sites hosted here at WA, we have that functionality.