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Shared SSL Hosting

Shared SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificates is a certificated that all of our customers can use. The Shared SSL certificated is intended for those who wish to have a secure connection, to say an admin area or a simple checkout process, but don't wish to purchase a Private SSL. Normally, a Shared SSL is not the best choice for an e-commerce site, this is because most customers expect to see the domain name of the company in the URL address bar. Shared SSL will use our domain name (usually ezhostingserver.com or hostek.com) in place of your domain name.

As mentioned, Hostek.com offers a free Shared SSL certificate for you to use. Forms directed to the secure SSL server would have a specific URL such as https://secure.Hostek.com/your_domain/your-page.html.

NOTE: For our resellers, Hostek.com has a white label shared SSL for your customers to use. For information about Private SSL Certificates for you site please visit http://hostek.com/web-hosting-ssl.asp For information on installing a purchased SSL certificate on your site please visit https://wiki.hostek.com/SSL_Certificates

Enabling Shared SSL

Windows and ColdFusion

The shared SSL can be enabled via the control panel for our Windows and ColdFusion hosting customers.

 These Shared SSL URL's will look something like https://securex.ezhostingserver.com/yourdomain-com/

Linux

For our cPanel customers, this is enabled by default. Just use your pre-propagation URL except with https:// instead of http://

Another Example: Just https:// followed by the server name you are on plus /~your_username, for example https://cpx.hostek.com/~username - that would display the same page as your home page if you went to your domain directly via the domain name.

 These Shared SSL URL's will look something like https://cpx.hostek.com/~username x = number

How it works

Here is a sample of how the Shared SSL Hosting works on our servers.

Here is a sample image of a site using a cart, before it gets to the shared SSL site. Notice the site look and the URL is still on the main domain's site. In their cart, they have indicated the shared SSL URL for the checkout process. It's optimal to have the whole cart in a secure environment so the customer feels secure the whole time.

Now, after clicking "Checkout" the cart takes you to this Shared SSL page. Notice that the look of the site is the same. The URL changes based on the shared SSL URL for the site, which the cart owner entered in their cart setup.

Maybe you're not using a cart, but just need to link to a secure form submission page. After setting up the Shared SSL, you would just set your link to link to the Shared SSL URL instead of the non secured URL. It's really a simple process.