How do I use the shared SSL certificate?

SOME of the servers have shared SSL certificates on them, including Catfish, Octopus, and Sterling. Those shared certificates are harder to get than previously, so we may not be able to offer them indefinately. If you need secure pages, the cost of getting your own certificate is fairly low: $36/year for a static IP plus $30/year for the cert.

A shared SSL certificate is not a free SSL cert of your own, so you will not see it installed on your own cpanel for a particular domain. It is installed for access by any user on the server.

Shared certificate on Catfish:
secure23.dnsvelocity.com

On Octopus:
secure12.dnsvelocity.com

On Sterling:
secure9.gryphynmedia.com

Champion and Crown: not yet available

If you have a dedicated server, you MUST buy your own cert to be installed.

This is how you would reach a page securely:
https://secure##.dnsvelocity.com/~username/pagename

This is how you would reach your site securely:
https://secure##.dnsvelocity.com/~username/

The "username" is the username we sent you in your welcome email for your hosting account, the one you use to log into the control panel or FTP.

So, let's say you load up an order form called checkout.html on a domain hosted on Catfish... you would call it securely this way:

https://secure23.dnsvelocity.com/~username/checkout.html

If you just need to process a form securely, or collect some confidential info, this shared certificate is fine. If you need to run your own shopping cart, I would invest in your own certificate registered to your own site, so customers are not concerned that they are being misdirected. Open a helpdesk ticket to ask for help and pricing for SSL certificates.

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