How can we make our site secure?

Using SSL involves purchasing an SSL Certificate and installing it to your account.

A certificate is $59 per year and will match both www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com – many SSL providers only allow one name. Ours will cover both.

There is also a $2 monthly charge for a dedicated IP address. A dedicated IP is required for SSL to work (with any hosting company). Most Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts also believe that a dedicated IP can improve your search engine rankings.

The first step in getting an SSL certificate is answering the following questions (required to create the cert) :

Country Name (two letter code – example: US)
State or Province Name (full name)
Locality Name (eg – city)
Organization Name (eg – company name)
Organizational Unit Name (eg – section or department – this is optional)
Secure URL (eg – secure.yourdomain.com, www.yourdomain.com, etc.)
Email Address
An optional company name (this is optional)

Note: The secure URL is the URL that the cert will work for. If you use www.yourdomain.com, we will add yourdomain.com for free.

Enter this information into a support ticket along with a statement such as “I approve the $59 yearly cert fee and $2 monthly dedicated IP fee” and we can have your cert ready in a few hours in most cases.