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| Posted by hostjunkies, 08-19-2010, 07:22 PM |
| I'm a little confused on SSL certificates. Will purchasing a RapidSSL certificate be ok for running a WHMCS billing site? Enom webpage says its $9.95 a year. I don't really understand all of the various SSL jargon so I can't really tell if this is going to be good enough for a SSL enabled cart system for people to order various services/products.
Any help would be appreciated.
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| Posted by whmcsservices, 08-19-2010, 08:03 PM |
| i dont see that on enom.com that 9.95 yrs
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| Posted by Sturdy Aric, 08-19-2010, 08:06 PM |
| Hello,
Right now you can pick up a Positive SSL Certificates for only $5/year and they work with WHMCS just fine.
Best of luck.
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| Posted by hostjunkies, 08-19-2010, 08:07 PM |
| It's a Geotrust product
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| Posted by whmcsservices, 08-19-2010, 08:09 PM |
| here is the website if you dont know http://www.positivessl.com
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| Posted by Sturdy Aric, 08-19-2010, 08:13 PM |
| Thanks forgot to add it
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 08-19-2010, 08:14 PM |
| There is a good comparison on the enom website regarding their ssl certs
http://www.enom.com/secure/sbs-ssl-certificates.aspx
The role of ssl is not just to show you have ssl, but to encrypt the data processed from your website. Even a self signed ssl , which can be generated from your end would work fine with WHMCS.
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| Posted by Sturdy Aric, 08-19-2010, 08:22 PM |
| Yes this would work. But it also pop up errors about it. I know i would not want that to show. So why not and get a paid one that will not show error?
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| Posted by hostjunkies, 08-19-2010, 08:33 PM |
| Correct. Self signed is no good for a business. Thanks for the suggestion above, i will just try it.
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| Posted by Patrick, 08-19-2010, 08:49 PM |
| RapidSSL or PositiveSSL. Both will work with all the mainstream browsers and quite frankly, no one looks at the cert to see if you paid $10 or $100 so unless you're doing a lot of transacations ($xx,xxx+) I wouldn't worry too much.
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| Posted by Ankheg, 08-21-2010, 12:53 PM |
| Go with RapidSSL. Great ubiquity in browsers, no intermediate certificates required. PositiveSSL includes a year of free server "Hackerproof" server scanning... and, apparently, a lifetime (or maybe just a year?) of spam from Comodo and their "partners".
Won't be making that mistake again...
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| Posted by hostjunkies, 08-21-2010, 03:45 PM |
| good info, thanks
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| Posted by hostdl, 08-23-2010, 11:13 AM |
| Currently i'm using Godaddy SSL certificates which requires intermediate certificates also
it will hangs on "Connected to" while trying to open the https request, after a few seconds it will go ahead to "waiting for reply" and "data transferring" status
Do you confirm that with RapidSSL or any similar product with no intermediate cert will speeds up in my case ?
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| Posted by Ankheg, 08-23-2010, 12:36 PM |
| Yeah, a cert with no intermediates required should speed things up a little bit. Or, if you're stuck with the horrible GoDaddy cert (don't get me started on them...) there might be a couple things you can try to speed things up, depending on what software you're using. (Chaining everything together in one big .pem file, for instance.)
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| Posted by hostjunkies, 08-24-2010, 08:32 PM |
| i ended up getting a RapidSSL certificate. Works great thus far.
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