A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is needed if you wish to get an SSL certificate that will encrypt all the payment and login info which will be exchanged between your website and its users. The CSR contains info about the site plus its owner in Base64-encoded form - website address, physical address and e-mail, company name and unit, and the like. Based on this code, a licensed SSL vendor provides you with the certificate, that's digitally signed with the vendor's private key to identify that they are a trusted issuer. During the CSR generation, a unique private key is also created and the set up of the SSL involves all four codes - the two keys, the certificate plus the CSR. Then, you'll be able to use a URL beginning with https:// for your website instead of http:// and the website visitors will be able to view the information that you've provided for the CSR via their Internet browsers.
SSL Certificate Generator in Website Hosting
We offer SSL certificates together with our website hosting packages, so if you'd like to provide protection to the information your visitors send, you will be able to obtain one from the Hepsia Control Panel. Using our SSL wizard, you will be able to enter the company/personal details which you want to be associated with the certificate and our system will generate the CSR plus a unique private key. You will get an e-mail message from our vendor in order to verify the order and next, the SSL certificate will be set up automatically in case you have selected this attribute in the wizard throughout your order. In this way, you won't need to do anything at all manually as our system will do the required and your new certificate will be active soon after that. Of course, if you wish to use another SSL vendor, you can still use the CSR that you've generated using your account.
SSL Certificate Generator in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel that is provided with our semi-dedicated server accounts has an inbuilt SSL certificate request generator, so in case you host a website that you'd like to secure, you're able to obtain a new SSL with several clicks. You will just have to type in the information for your certificate if it's not the same as the one you already have inside your account and our system will create the Certificate Signing Request as well as the private key associated with it. If you decide to get the SSL through our company, you just need to choose the auto-configuration option throughout the order and our system will do the necessary, so you won't have to install the certificate manually. Should you want to obtain the SSL from a different company, you only need to save the CSR code. Subsequently you'll need to install your certificate, however if you have never done this before or you have any issues, you will be able to contact us and we will install the SSL in a few minutes.