If you'd like to use an SSL Certificate for your website, to protect the payment and login information which users submit, you will need a Certificate Signing Request, or CSR. The Request contains all the information related to the entity which will use the SSL in an encoded form, for instance the exact web address for the site, the Business/Organization name, physical and email address. It has to be sent to a vendor, or Certificate Authority, which reviews the posted info and based on it, issues the SSL certificate. The SSL installation requires 4 bits of code - the certificate, the CSR, a specific private key that's generated together with the CSR and the SSL vendor private key. An Internet site that has an SSL installed can be accessed with https:// rather than the usual http:// and the information submitted for the CSR will be viewed in standard text format from an Internet browser.

SSL Certificate Generator in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is provided with our semi-dedicated server accounts has an integrated SSL certificate request generator, so if you host a website that you'd like to secure, you're able to get a new SSL with a few clicks. You will only have to type in the info for your certificate when it's not the same as the one you have in the account and our system will generate the Certificate Signing Request and the private key related to it. If you decide to acquire the SSL from us, you only have to choose the auto-configuration option throughout the order and our system will do the needed, so you will not have to set up the certificate manually. If you plan to acquire the SSL from another company, you just need to save the CSR code. Then you'll have to install your certificate, yet if you've never done this before or you have any difficulties, you'll be able to get in touch with us and we'll install the SSL in a couple of minutes.