SSL Secure Server

Normally, any text(such as your credit card number) sent from your browser to the web server is sent as plain text. This means that a hacker could potentially intercept (however unlikely) the information sent from your browser and read it. By using the secure server, the information is encrypted before it is sent from your browser. It would be practically impossible for anyone to decrypt it without knowing the key.

The following example uses yourdomain as the name of your domain and any page as the name of the order form or the page you wish to be secure.

Determining your host name

To find out your correct path to secure server you need to know which server your site is hosted on. The easiest way to do this is to log in via FTP and look at the message which is displayed. This will contacin your server name which will look like xxxx.srv2.com
If you have any doubt which host you are on, please Contact Support.

 

How to call pages securely

You can call any page uploaded to your account through the secure server.

To link to pages on your site through the secure server, they need to be addressed like this:
https://[servername]/~username/anypage.html

Replace the [servername] with the name of the server your site is on.

The above page would be accessed from the normal web server as: http://www.yourdomain.com/anypage.html

You should only call important pages (e.g. order forms) via the secure address or it will cause the server to run slower.