08.03.15
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Small Businesses Can Be a Big Deal for Resellers in the Cloud Space


1) What is Small Business

Small Businesses are private corporations, sole proprietorships and partnerships. The term “Small Business” defines by different organizations in the context of number of employees. Generally it is mentioned, businesses ranging from less than 10 employees to thousand employees are mainly categorised as small to mid- sized companies otherwise they are termed as SMBs. According to other methods, Small businesses can also be categorised as assets, sales, liabilities, purchases, net profit and others. These companies range from a very small store to e-commerce businesses.

In 2006, more than 18,000 small businesses possessing more than 500 employees constitute half of total employees engaged in all small businesses. SMBs want to lead themselves so they are focusing on ways of cutting the costs and expansion of their capabilities. There are various ways and among this, one way is that they are moving their important functions to cloud. Recently a study was conducted which predicted and showed the value $32 billion of the U.S. SMB Market in 2016 which is almost 20% growth rate occurred on year to year basis and also showed increase of 25% in the adoption of the total global cloud services.

2) Small businesses in terms of web hosting

Use of Web hosting is becoming very popular among large size businesses. Small size companies are also having their websites in order to improve their competitive position and to host them; they are also using hosting services of various web hosting companies.

Usage of the cloud services and products of infrastructure by SMBs is expected to become almost double for next few years and reason behind this that these SMBs become more user friendly with concept of cloud and do not face in using same. Now SMBs are looking for cloud service companies as now they are moving several applications of business to cloud. SMBs are small size companies thus they operate more efficiently and focus on their main business, outsource functions of technology and in this context they prefer the established organizations.

3) Emerging small business /SMB Demand Is a Golden Opportunity for Resellers

Resellers are having a great opportunity; they can open new stream of revenue and expand their relationship with the existing customers. VARs, MSPs, SIs want to expand their portfolio to use cloud services and for same they are required to increase their revenue and improve their relationships with SMBs. Demand is rising very fast within SMB market for different kinds of cloud services;

  • (IAAS) Infrastructure as a service – From the study, it is known that safety, IaaS server backup and services related to database is used by 40% of SMBs. Those are in the need of a robust database find web hosting solutions which are flexible via a reasonable and convenient way so as to store large amount of data in offsite without considering the issue of maintenance of server. In SMBs market, there are some rapidly growing sectors such as Security services, anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti- virus and e-mail safety solutions.
  • (SAAS) Software as a service Apps – Social media platform used by number of SMBs as a tool of marketing and access productivity apps such as Dropbox on regular basis. SMB’s feel more comfortable with cloud services, they started to embrace platforms of CRM such as Salesforce.com and other solutions related to business intelligence. These tools are accessed via laptops and desktops in office and also on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

4) Hosted Communications and Collaboration Solutions

Cloud services are used by SMBs for increasing capabilities of communication and for consolidating the infrastructure for more efficiency and for integration on one platform. E-mail and hosted private branch exchange (PBX) phone services are included in the applications but Unified Communications-as-a-Service solutions attract the market towards themselves. It delivers audio / video conferencing, telephone, messaging, presence technology, and email more over an IP network.

08.03.15
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Choosing best web hosts


Mostly in web hosting some aspects creates bothersome like researching of host, price comparison and look best website, business or blog in organizing new business on internet. User has to spend a lot of time managing after adopting this. All web hosts are not created same stuffs but some features such as reliability and uptime of site applied on same. User should not restrict on above features for daily backups and make safe website.

Before choosing web host, user has to consider some key factors below:

Price : User monthly plan payment will be like fine, unless ton of traffic is pushed on his website. It will be possible on a shared server with collection of many sites. User should consider dedicated servers for bulk traffic sites which provides good pricing to any site size.

Technical Support : If user’s site ever goes down then he need technical support providing solution. User has to go with that web host offering 24/7 support via online chat, phone and email. By this user can easily resolve his technical problems regarding site.

WordPress Installation in one click : People are using more WordPress nowadays in comparison to earlier. Many web hosting are offering one-click installation solution to their customers. To setup new WordPress sites and software on server this is the easiest way rather than to upload and download files through FTP. User can go through the link how one click install works.

Reviews of Customer : If user wants to search best things about any web hosting company then he has to observe online reviews of customers. Some brands usually posts their own made reviews helps to fetch their favorable ratings, so user must be sure to check reviews from different locations.

Top Hosting Companies

There are many different options user has to choose for web hosting. To opt for best and reliable web host check below mentioned details:-

Hostgator : Company entered in web hosting since 2002 and support currently around eight million domains. It is providing dedicated server hosting, VPS hosting and reseller hosting.

Rackspace : Rackspace has been in web hosting since 1998. It provides cloud servers and sites to custom applications and managed colocation servers. They are also utilizing OpenStack for cloud computing infrastructure.

BlueHost : Bluehost has been in business since 1996. Company is offering shared server as well as reseller web hosting. They have service of free website builder and use cPanel for client access.

SoftLayer : Softlayer came into business in 2005. It provides dedicated server hosting, managed hosting and cloud computing. They are offering implementation of virtual cloud servers or CloudLayer servers according to requirement.

Domain.com : They have entered into business since 2000. They are providing domain names as well as VPS hosting, emails and SSL services. Also offers some cool free domain and email forwarding services.

Now user will get enough information regarding best hosting companies after visiting few options given above. There are many more options available besides these companies. User can also compare rates, best plans and features according to the requirements.

08.03.15
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Web Analytics and Its Uses


Webmasters got their websites online- landing page, a blog, sales page, corporate site on internet. Getting layout and branding user has to work hard. They have researched keywords helps to determine content searched by people and create new and fresh content as per need. Social sharing buttons and widgets are implemented across website in which webmasters would be reminded about pages and content liked by people.

Web Analytics

Web analytics is simply analysis, measurement, reporting and collection of website data to understand web usage. Once anyone can understand detailed use of website then he can optimize different aspects to achieve better results.

From where Web Analytics started?

Previously internet website owners have measured popularity of pages receiving number of hits. Nowadays, user understands that hits will not provide any useful information about how and by whom site is being used. By internet website owners look at their statistics of website included unique visitors, number of site visits, most accessed pages and duration spent on a page. Provided data considered as reports and technical in nature. No real analysis was performed and real business insight was not being provided by reports.

Therefore, web analytics is not the process of analyzing page hits and website usage statistics. Data is being analyzed by it. It gives understanding that how websites will be used to a new level. User can not only get reports on statistics but also useful analysis such as visitor demographics, at where they are clicking actually, how long visitors spend on particular sections of pages, how far pages can be scrolled up and down, where mouse cursor will move. If content have shared or liked using social media plug-ins by users on website then personal details of them will be collected into analysis.

Implementation of web analytics on own site

Many site owners are still not implementing analytics tools on their site. It is difficult to determine perception on technical basis and also using reports and graphs what should change? Site owners will not find it important specifically if it’s new or small site. Data collection is good practice from the day beginning. To implement Web Analytics many free tools are there to get started. If anyone has implemented toolset from outset then all historical data will be stored into analysis.

Web Analytics can help really

An example defines importance of Web Analytics:

Part of monetization strategy helps to embed affiliate link management on blog for products within articles. Information provided and articles are important part beyond affiliated links. WordPress plug-in is there help to affiliate link management and provides automatically add affiliated links ability. All this being written within article and across entire site based on one or more defined keywords. By addition of new link, words will be punched to the added link, and then anyone can easily monetized site.

Many products are available providing capability for visualization that viewers are clicking on posts and pages. This feature helps to check whether affiliate links are working properly and being clicked. By clicking on link some triggering words are there useful for articles. Using this tool it will be easier to understand the formatting of words.

08.03.15
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MySQL Databases for Web Hosting


When anyone buys web hosting, hosting provider will include an option called “Databases” in his package details. But many people don’t know about databases and need of them while setting up website. This will help to explain use of databases.

User usually get database systems with web hosting accounts are all relational database systems or RDBMS. If anybody use Windows hosting server then MS SQL database is used and in Unix based system MySQL database is used. For fast and easy retrieval both systems put website data into tabular layouts.

Databases are aggregation of rows and columns in which each row or column is connected to each other in some cases. Information can be retrieved quickly and efficiently from this database due to this relation in comparison to those data stored in an unstructured format. Consider a database which is a collection of multiple spreadsheets related to each other in some way.

Security

Major advantage of having stored data in a database is its ability to assist database from unauthorized access. A simple example will be login credentials storage. In another way, login credentials will be stored in a simple text file and can be read by script in which authentication is done. Although password will be stored in plain text by file makes it vulnerable to anyone accessing it. For encryption of entries databases are used and use hashing algorithm to hide them. Anybody has to specify login details to read or write database, which cannot be possible with spreadsheet.

Efficiency

The way of storing data in database, storage and retrieval is most important. The type of information stored in each row or column is restricted by SQL unlike spreadsheet in which everything can be stored in any cell. Validation inbuilt in SQL properties is an advantage for developer and programmer. Many inbuilt mechanisms are present in RDBMS systems, which is most important method of storage and data retrieval.

During reading of text file, the problem is large to open and scan contents of file according to need. If anybody wants to see all sales related to particular customer, entire file have to be read and name of customer would be saved in temporary place. If anyone saved spreadsheet instead of text file, he would have inbuilt Sort feature. Therefore, anybody will be able to find all sales in reference of a particular customer and again if file will be large to open spreadsheet.

Administrative Control

Database systems have different control mechanisms allow easy administration of database and tables. Most important part is user management. To the database, each user has given particular rights and allows limited access to secure data from being modified or altered. Many settings of database can be pinched by Database Administrator. This is to restrict data flow, connection speeds, server has maximum number of connections and adjust hardware resources allocated to perform a task.

08.03.15
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Selecting an Operating system for VPS


Internet technologies have entered all our areas of life and changed it dramatically. People are able to implement many activities from reading newspapers and favorite books and communication with each other. Online games played for tickets booking and particular products and services are buying desktops, tablets and smart phones. Increase in the number of online users, many businessmen and large companies have decided to move their organizations into internet, for additional revenues. This technique is very effective by allowing search for new customer portion and business projects are promoted in a very short duration. Online business environment is full of different websites currently try to attract attention of client, beneficial customer services and loyalty programs. Growth of business depends on hosting plan for their online business. As server is more powerful, website will be more accessible and high-speed.

While selecting hosting services, many hosting packages are available in hosting market. Major hosting solutions are there for VPS server:-

VPS Hosting

VPS is a physical server, divided into many virtual ones between specific numbers of users. Virtual copy is isolated fully from others and possesses own dedicated resources and operating system. User shares RAM, CPU performance and bandwidth with other users and gets full control over options of server. User will get dedicated resources basis of shared hosting.

User should choose operating system that will run on server before buying VPS hosting plan. VPS servers mainly work on two main platforms: Windows and Linux. Both OS has their own specifications and directed on different websites owner segments.

Linux VPS Hosting

Linux open-source software is utilized by Linux-based hosting solutions. By this fact, owners of website are able to neglect spending their revenues and purchasing licenses for running and downloading specific particular add-ons and Linux programs. Linux VPS server will be fine art for companies, which will make fast beginning but meet still budget limitations.

Advantages Of Linux VPS Servers

1. Compatibility: If anybody make his website pages more user-friendly and improve uptimes and server reliability then Linux platform would be most important choice as many coding languages are supported such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby and MySQL on Rails.

2. Flexibility and Reliability: Fewer resources are consumed by Linux VPS servers enhance performance of website and eliminate appearance of downtime. Users are capable to allot resources further between required applications by help of control panel.

3. Development: A website owner can change server configurations as Linux is an open-source code perform customizations and updates along with deployment of various applications and add-ons based on preferences and needs.

4. Interaction: With SSH text-based command systems all VPS servers are connected allowing users to enhance functionality about their servers and minimize overloading. A user has programming and coding knowledge for implementation of operations via SSH system.

Windows VPS Hosting

Under Windows operating system, Windows VPS server works makes them popular among many website owners. Windows OS needs installation fees and additional application and programs are used.

Advantages of Windows VPS Servers:

1. Improved control: An option is provided to every user called Remote Desktop access. By this, a user is capable to manage and control his server at any time and place decided by their own.

2. User-friendly interface: All Windows VPS servers has easy-to-use graphical user interface which would be helpful if any user is not refined in server management and maintenance.

3. Strong security: Some professional anti-virus and anti spy programs are connected with Windows VPS servers as well as reliable firewalls. Therefore nobody should worry about hacking server and stealing of important data.

4. Website support: Some programs such as ASP and ASP.NET included by Windows-based hosting solution. User can customize his website by using above programs and run on Microsoft server.

These two hosting solution possess some difference. If user has to make selection between Windows and Linux VPS servers, consider not only their features but also goals and skills of business as well as hosting companies.

08.03.15
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Microsoft and Google, Amazon’s Rival in Cloud


Amazon recently disclosed financial performance of its powerful growth engine and number are good especially compared with big companies like Google and Microsoft that are following it. Amazon is known as online retailer primarily, its stock market and revenue returns for years that have been energized by entirely different kind of commerce: renting processing power to startups and increases established businesses.

Amazon helped to popularize field known as cloud computing and largely itself for years, a tremendous advantage in industry where rivals shift one another closely. Other tech powerhouses have awakened the fact they will be in a market that could be hundreds of billions of dollars. Amazon’s cross town rival Microsoft is committed to challenge and in fierce move.

According to the report of first quarter earnings of Amazon, revenue of $1.57 billion was generated during first three months of year. Company has to focus on what is more unusual at company which is responsible for losses, substantial profits are generated by cloud business. Company has disclosed its operating income from AWS was $265 million.

Microsoft ranked on second number in cloud computing. Two businesses were compared on different parameters, precisely due to Microsoft has reported its cloud results. Microsoft has announced recently that its annual revenue from its commercial cloud business would be $6.3 billion based on performance. While Amazon told comparable annual figure for AWS was $5.16 billion.

Microsoft includes revenue from different online applications into that figure. Azure, cloud business provides revenue is more directly comparable to Amazon’s cloud services, was recently estimated by Deutsche Bank to be little as one-tenth from AWS.

AWS has provided computing power to various divisions of Amazon. Amazon offered to startups that were struggling to move themselves by their good internal performance.

Executives of Amazon have told AWS expectation to eventually rival other organization of company in size. Growth of cloud business is about 40 percent a year which is more than twice of rate of overall company. Mostly Wall Street analysts have been hope for spinoff.

Cloud computing service of Google has started pressing AWS on pricing, hurting profitability. Amazon told it to cut prices dozens of time, which developed its revenue growth.

Solution wants to provide other services including database software, analytics and remote operation of desktop computers. These are generally slow-growing businesses. Reseller network has also increased by Amazon hope to rival kind of Microsoft strategies Microsoft employed to promote Windows for business.

Many companies of big technology has dozed through cloud computing in early days, but most of them like Microsoft, got religion from now on-wards. Microsoft’s chief executive ran its Azure cloud business and has made cloud business a top priority.

Though Cloud business of Microsoft is smaller than Amazon, it is growing fast, more than double from last year. One of brightest spots at a company still slowdown in PC sales.

Analysts believed in Microsoft to get better chance of influencing large businesses using its software products by adoption of cloud services. There may be big challenge for Startups. Amazon has become synonyms with cloud computing with them, even Microsoft has filled technological gap with its offerings. Revenue has given surprising growth especially in case of company’s robust size makes large profit. Revenue rose to $22.72 billion by 15 percent which is about $300 million more than expected.

08.03.15
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Importance of Data Protection Certificates and Right Web Hosting


Web site hosting is populated by some site owners as one of those things that can be taken without proper research. But with proper research and planning some websites turn to new heights quickly, others observe it hard to carry on operations and end users shuns them.

To ensure website belongs to former category, it is important for user to analyze required features and neglect those features not needed for website in first place. Once it has been decided, it is good time to choose best hosting such as Linux website hosting, Cloud hosting, Windows hosting etc.

Linux-based hosting is best to minimize overall cost which results in higher profit in comparison to Windows-based hosting being compatible with other operating systems and software. Co-located hosting wherein web host is the owner of a physical server can be customized as per need and is a good option for more disk space and RAM. Lack of hosting support is a big disappointment until and unless user has resources or budget to compensate. To decide best hosting type, user will have time to get SSL certificates for website if anybody is offering services and products online.

To encourage customers, security certificates are excellent medium to shop at online store as trust quotient will be improved and data protection, customer privacy will be redefined. After consideration, these two are very much observed, emphasized to help business to enhance in competition in no time. Such certificate will prove it more beneficial to stimulate visitors and convert them into paying and regular customers instead of promoting product awareness. This leads assurance that online business is rewarded with high traffic systematically. Best part is that user can utilize easily web hosting and buy SSL certificates from single provider by inquiring for website development and marketing company specializes in hosting and maintaining customer privacy standards. All are required to focus on choosing right service provider and experience his business finding it easy to strike new customers, markets and opportunities without putting any burden on budget.

Data protection certificate defined as practical qualification for users who work in data protection and privacy fields. In this program successful completion of certificate exhibits employers so that candidate possesses sound knowledge of data protection law and understanding of practical implications of organizations of legal requirements. Candidates want to apply for exemption must submit a letter signed by current or previous employer providing information of their work experience for at least two years.

07.06.15
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Protect The Domain Registration Privacy Of Potential Online Abuse Targets


Congresswoman Katherine Clark urges the global domain name database maintenance organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to protect the domain registration privacy of potential online abuse targets.

In a letter to ICANN, Clark points out that private information made publicly available through online registry databases has led to extreme cases of abuse, harassment, and stalking. ICANN’s publicly available Whois registry database is sometimes used by abusers to orchestrate an online intimidation tactic known as “doxing,” or the exploitative release of private information such as personal addresses and phone and social security numbers. Recent cases involving women journalists, feminists, and technology professionals highlighted the increasing prevalence of doxing. The incidents range from online abusers’ attempts to send SWAT teams to break into women’s private residences to women fleeing their homes after receiving specific violent threats, including their home addresses or photos.

Clark said: “The sad reality is, when women choose to express a strong point of view online, they become routine targets of severe online threats, and those threats often have real-world consequences. Protecting their privacy online is one way we can protect their freedom of expression. The internet plays an undeniable role in our advancement as a country and as individuals, and we all have a role in ensuring that every voice can participate equally.”

Studies have shown that women are the targets of the most severe types of internet abuse, and it happens at a rate 27 times greater than men.

In Clark’s letter, she emphasizes the crucial role privacy protections have in combating severe online threats: “Women targeted by online abuse repeatedly subjected to explicit threats of rape and murder. Their personal information often disclosed, and many have been forced to flee their homes and cancel public events because of threats received online. These violent online threats are not only emotionally devastating; they curtail women’s professional choices and limit their full participation in the economy.'”

Clark’s letter was sent in response to proposed changes to privacy policies currently under consideration by ICANN. Under the proposed revisions, organizations and individuals like domestic violence shelters, human rights activists, and others may be forced to disclose the registrants’ personal information if their website accepts donations or uses advertisements to promote their cause.

Clark’s plea to ICANN is a continuation of her efforts to end online violence that disproportionately targets women. The U.S. House recently backed Congresswoman Clark’s request to intensify investigation and prosecution of severe online threats against women. The Department of Justice was explicitly instructed to “intensify its efforts to combat this destructive abuse” and “increase investigations and prosecutions of these crimes.”

In June, Clark introduced the Prioritizing Online Threats Enforcement Act, legislation that compels the Department of Justice (DOJ) to enforce laws prohibiting online violence against women and to ensure protections for victims of severe online threats. Source: Press Release katherineclark.house.gov Date: July 6, 2015

07.04.15
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Nexcess Review


Company Overview

Nexcess is a leading hosting company based in Michigan, founded in 2000, with data centers throughout Europe, Australia and United States. This helps company to divert attention of the users towards web hosting provider from all over the world and generate web traffic. Company provides variety of enterprise hosting services with dedicated servers and custom clustered /hosting configurations. It gives emphasis on achieving maximum performance for high profile stores and sites. They further offer types of hosting options, but their major focus is marketing efforts on small and medium sized businesses.

On top of that, web hosting provides multiple services to users and solves their issues frequently. Although, web industry is a competitive place, that’s why Nexcess are purpose built for specific applications, so user can consistently outperform competition by 13x or more. Company is running five data centers, content delivery network and great scale server clusters for enterprise. It facilitates undergo annual SSAE 16 examinations and fully PCI DSS e-commerce web hosting plans.

Nexcess Launched Backup Plans

NExcess has introduced new tier of extended backup plans which gives guarantee of user’s data is kept secure and safe over long term. New backup plans provide dedicated server and enterprise server cluster clients’ backup solution. Now enterprise clients can opt ninety day plans includes daily backups of server data. In one year data retention plans user will get daily backups, monthly snapshots, allow customers to restore and access data for longer time.

Long-term data retention is necessary aspects of security and business continuity management. These back up plans maintain reliable and manage backups, helps to avoid unnecessary integration with external services. Backups are necessary for security of client’s confidential data and applications. Now a days advanced persistent security threat are common, therefore its essential that online businesses have clean backups for at minimum three months and for longer period. Company’s new launch is most recent addition to great performance hosting plans, used by largest ecommerce retailers and publishers.

Nexcess SSL- CDN Plans

Company offers low cost SSL encryption to its CDN for global performance and security. It offers SSL- protected content with minimal latency to e-commerce hosting clients. This SSL- CDN can be added to any Nexcess CDN plan for $20. Company’s CDN is an extensive network of edge nodes located at key points around the world. Content is pushed from Nexcess’ data centers to edge nodes so that users get same fast and reliable service no matter where they are. Comapny’s SSL CDN services offer clients to locate their sites in geographic area without sacrificing fast and secure access to rest of the world.

Nexcess Key Features

Features from this company are quite standard. Company offers superior service and support through web hosting business. Support staff is ready all time to serve user’s requirement. Its data center facility is backbone of web hosting operations and offers redundant, secure, well connected and controlled environment for all equipment. With redundant power, connectivity and cooling, facility equipped to handle any situation which may arise. Offer guarantee 99.9% uptime and zero loss internal to company’s network. Company specializes in web hosting solutions from shared site to the most complex multi-server configuration.

Nexcess Pricing

Pricing band for the company exists slightly higher than other companies. As by this they showcase themselves above than others. It starts from $6.95 per month to $24.95 per month for hosting options. Pricing for their servers starts from $494.45 per month to $699.95 per month, costing may vary $1449.95 per month to $44495.95 per month. This includes faster network, firewalls and much more.

Nexcess Customer Support

As per most of the user’s opinion technical support is available all the time via email, phone and even with live chat. Enthusiasm of tech support team is like they are doing their own work. At every moment they are on site and equipped to attend any kind of minor or major issues and even team support to get user’s site up.

06.26.15
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Hosting Server SSL Web


In today’s world and age cyber security is a big issue. Therefore, it is very important to build a secure website that protects all the confidential information and encrypts communication between the server and the person visiting the website.

SSL or Secure Sockets Layer Protocol is a standard for allowing a secure transition of personal and confidential information. SSL or Secure Certificate is known for providing security to a variety of websites. Obtaining SSL certification is not easy. One of the easiest ways of obtaining SSL certification is purchasing it from WP Engine or any other certificate provider. It is hassle free and allows easy access at a decided rate. SSL certification is of many types depending on the various requirements of the websites. SSL certifications can be either Domain Validated SSL or Extended Validated SSL depending on the purpose of the website. For obtaining the SSL certificate, having a dedicated IP address is also necessary. Customers can choose the required SSL accordingly and can make it shared SSL or dedicated SSL depending on the necessity. Therefore, for every Website Hosting Server SSL Web certification is very much important and necessary as far as security is concerned.

Over these years, the problem of security has risen to a great extent. Therefore, most of the commercial websites or bank websites are resorting to securing their websites and encrypting their transactions using SSL. Apart from that, stickers of “the website is safe” are also available from some certificate providers.

In a nutshell, SSL certification is very important and thus is gaining popularity.

Major Certificate Authorities

Hosting Company
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godaddy
  • Single Website SSL @ $62.99/Yr
  • Multiple Website SSL @ $134.99/Yr
  • Wildcard SSL @ $269.99/Yr
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comodo
  • EV SSL @ $99.00/Yr
  • EV Multi-Domain SSL @ $235.38/Yr
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RapidSSL
  • Rapid SSL @ $12.99/Yr
  • Rapid SSL Wildcard @ $124.00/yr
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thawte-ssl
  • Thawte SSL 123 @ $45.00/yr
  • Thawte SSL Web Server with EV @ $156.50/Yr
  • Thawte Wildcard SSL Certificate @ $349.00/Yr
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SymantecSSL
  • Secure Site @ $274.00/Yr
  • Secure Site Pro with EV @ $1049.00/Yr
  • Secure Site Wildcard @ $1582.67/Yr
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geotrust
  • QuickSSL Premium @ $65.00/Yr
  • True BusinessID with EV @ $149.00/Yr
  • True BusinessID Wildcard @ $366.33/Yr
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To implement HTTPS/ SSL on any website, following steps need to be performed.

1. Get an appropriate SSL Certificate-

In the first step, user is required to obtain an appropriate SSL Certificate & to obtain this, a Certificate Signing Request or CSR must be generated by user on their own web server. If user is having complete administrative privileges on their server, it can be created by themselves. But contact your hosting provider is recommended. After getting this encrypted CSR, purchased an appropriate SSL Certificate, from the reliable certificate providers.

2. Configure https on server-

Now user must ask their hosting provider to install SSL and configure https on his server.

3. http to https-

User is required to redirect all their old non-https links to https. This task can be performed manually if there is a small site. On viceversa, if site is big, following code is used in .htaccess file
In case of Apache
# For http to https
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{https} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

If user is using Nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name yoast.com http://www.yoast.com;
return 301 https://yoast.com$request_uri;
}

4. Insecure elements to be removed from site-

Now remove all the elements which are considered as insecure from site either manually or with the help of certain tools. To check this, see if chrome is having a yellow coloured triangle with a grey padlock. If yes, insecure elements are still there,otherwise, a regular green lock is visible.

5. Add http Strict Transport Security Header-

To redirect http links to https on part of clients, add HSTS. For this used the following code.
Apache
# This forces all requests to be over https
Header set Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000”

Nginx
# This forces all requests to be over https
add_header Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000”;

6. Perform Test of SSL-

Qualys SSL test is used on site to perform a SSL test. It helps to know whether SSL is implemented on site and server properly or not and then verify it using webmaster tools.
Above process is quite simple and easy to follow. So, if HTTPS/ SSL implemeted on website, safe and secure transmission of information takes place between client and server and it leads to user satisfaction.

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