If you need to use an SSL Certificate for your website, to protect the payment and login information that users send, you will need a Certificate Signing Request, or CSR. The Request contains all the info related to the entity that will use the SSL in an encoded form, for instance the exact web address for the site, the Business/Organization name, physical and email address. It has to be sent to a vendor, or Certificate Authority, which reviews the posted info and based on it, gives the SSL certificate. The SSL installation requires 4 bits of code - the certificate, the CSR, a unique private key that's generated along with the CSR and the SSL vendor private key. An Internet site which has an SSL installed can be accessed with https:// rather than the usual http:// and the information submitted for the CSR will be viewed in standard text format via an Internet browser.
SSL Certificate Generator in Shared Web Hosting
Since SSL certificates are some of the services which we supply together with our shared web hosting packages, you are able to obtain an SSL for any site hosted in an account on our end with just a couple of clicks. What's more, we have an auto-installer tool, so when you approve the order via email, our system will set everything up on your behalf and it'll install the certificate, the CSR and the 2 private keys. After that, you will be able to open your website with https:// and any info submitted on it will be encoded, therefore no unauthorized people will be able to intercept it. In case you have chosen a different SSL service provider, you can only create a Certificate Signing Request inside your account on our end along with the unique private key, then save the CSR code and submit it to the other vendor.