High website traffic is something that is very
coveted by a site owner. How not desirable, if it turns out to be very strong
influence on the income it receives from a site. To that end, various therapies
are tried to be applied by a site owner to boost website traffic. One way is to
install an SSL certificate.
What exactly is an SSL certificate?
Understanding
SSL certificates
SSL is short for secure sockets layer, which is a
digital certificate that protects a website or a site from tampering.
Protection is done by not providing direct access to it either opening the
website url or even downloading the data available.
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So when, and click on the address of a site,
that's when the data transfer path opens between the server where the website
stores the data with the computer or other device that you are using. This open
path must be secured so that it is not easily broken. Now the way to secure it
is to put the certified encrypted algorithm.
Why have a website that looks fantastic but the
level of security is only as thin as tissue paper. Tearing easily with just one
or two fingers of a 2-year-old child.
Maybe you've had the experience of opening a site
and suddenly the url not secure message appears, this is a strong sign that the
site address is not safe to visit and usually there is a warning to you to
continue or just stop there, and turn right back.
The main characteristic of a website or sites that
have installed an SSL certificate, can be seen in the address in the upper left
corner that says https: // not http: //. So there is an additional
letter "s" after writing
http, which means secure. Then accompanied by a sign of the padlock before
https. Try to note the address of my blog in the upper left corner.
Why does the website have to install an SSL
certificate, what are the benefits?
Benefits of
SSL certificates For website
Land certificate and SSL certificate if you think
about the benefits are almost the same. What is different, one is physical and
the other is digital. One of the benefits of the two certificates is that they
are legitimate. But other benefits of the SSL certificate are:
1. Inform the visitor that the site is not fake or
valid.
2. Protect all sensitive data stored on the site
from theft
3. Help improve the ranking of sites on search
engines
SSL
certificate type
In general, there are 3 types of SSL certificates
that are widely used by site owners in this world. The three types of SSL
certificates are functionally different from one another.
1. SSL Extended Validation (EV) Certificate
Is the type of SSL certificate ranked at
the top of all other SSL certificates. This type of certificate is widely used
by an e-commerce site because of the way it works that provides multiple layers
of security, not only on the website address, but also all the sale
and purchase transactions on the e-commerce site.
2. SSL Domain Validation (DV) Certificate
The second type of SSL certificate is only
specifically intended to protect certain domains. So data protection is given
by encrypting the domain owner only.
3. SSL Organization Validation (OV)
Certificate
This third SSL certification is given only
to a particular organization / body and is given a green mark on the padlock
icon. For example, look at the top left corner of this blog address, you can
see the green padlock.
SSL certificate provider
It was realized that the importance of this SSL
certificate in data traffic, in recent years the number of using SSL
certificates has skyrocketed. Especially with the development of startup
business mode which has also spurred the increase in SSL certificate requests.
For global scale or world level, I identified 8
leading companies that sell the SSL certificate.
1. Comodo
2. Geo trust
3. DigiCert
4. Global Sign
5. Symantec
6. Thawte
7. Iden Trust
8. Entrust
For the matter of the sale price of the
certificate, in bandrol starting from the price of tens of thousands to
millions of rupiah with only a year of useful life.
For in Indonesia, SSL certificate provider
companies are considered to be very numerous, such as:
1. Dewaweb
2. Exabytes
3. Hostinger
4. Dedoho
5. Niagahoster
Sslindonesia
7. Domainesia
8.
Idwebhost
9.
Warungssl
10. Warehouse
Now please choose which one you want to buy, and
everything also depends on how much budget you have prepared.
Especially for site owners who have a blogspot or
wordpress platform like my blog, the good news is no need to spend personal
money to buy this SSL certificate because it has been provided for free, just
activate it. Here are the steps :
1. Open the dashboard of your blog account
2. Click the basic menu
3. Activate the https redirect menu by
selecting yes
That's some important information
about the SSL certificate that can be shared on this post.
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