A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is required in case you want to get an SSL certificate that will encrypt the payment and account information which will be exchanged between your website and its customers. The CSR contains info about the site plus its owner in Base64-encoded form - web address, physical address plus email, company name and unit, and the like. Based upon this code, an accredited SSL vendor provides you with the certificate, which is digitally signed with the vendor's private key so as to identify that they're a reliable issuer. During the CSR generation, a unique private key is also generated and the set up of the SSL involves all four codes - the two keys, the certificate and the CSR. After that, you will be able to use a URL beginning with https:// for your site rather than http:// and the site visitors will be able to view the info that you have provided for the CSR using their web browsers.
SSL Certificate Generator in Shared Hosting
We offer SSL certificates in addition to our shared hosting packages, so if you'd like to provide protection to the info your visitors send, you can get one right from your Hepsia Control Panel. With our SSL wizard, you'll be able to type in the company/personal details that you want to be associated with the certificate and our system will generate the CSR and a unique private key. You'll get an e-mail message from our supplier in order to verify the order and following that, the SSL certificate will be set up automatically if you have selected this function in the wizard during your order. In this way, you won't have to do anything at all manually as our system will do the necessary and your unique certificate will be active quickly after that. Needless to say, if you prefer to use some other SSL service provider, you can still use the CSR that you have generated through your account.
SSL Certificate Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel which is provided with our semi-dedicated server accounts has an integrated SSL certificate request generator, so in case you host a site that you want to secure, you'll be able to obtain a new SSL with a few clicks. You'll just have to type in the details for your certificate if it is not the same as the one you already have in your account and our system will generate the Certificate Signing Request plus the private key related to it. If you decide to acquire the SSL through our company, you just need to choose the auto-configuration option during your order and our system will do the needed, so you will not need to set up the certificate manually. In case you wish to obtain the SSL from some other company, you only have to save the CSR code. Then you will have to install the certificate, but if you've never done this before or you have any kind of troubles, you'll be able to get in touch with us and we'll install the SSL within a matter of minutes.