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    Default Security Certificates

    I have been reading about page ranking and I am industry people say that Google is placing a higher rank for sites with security certificates versus sites that do not have them. I never really considered a need for security certificate with our site because we really do not collect any real information from people or do a web store. I was wonder what everybody thoughts are on this and if there are any real benefits?

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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    Perhaps this article answers some of your questions: https://www.sslshopper.com/why-ssl-t...tificates.html

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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    Interesting information, thanks. Do you guys recommend for your customers to go with SSL certificates if they do not currently use iton their site or does it depend on the type of site?

    Ray

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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    In practice most sites that use ssl only do so on the pages handling sensitive data, personal details Credit & Debit cards etc.
    The remainder of the site is not ssl'ed (If that's a word)
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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    https://letsencrypt.org/ tries to make enabling SSL as easy and automated as possible.

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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    Nice link Luke. Thanks.
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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    https://letsencrypt.org/ this is very interesting. The only thing is it is designed for servers that are Linux based so sites on windows servers would have to go the traditional routes for the SSL Certificates.

    I talked with our guy that host's our Web site and he has been using the letsencrypt on several of his servers and he likes it. He is going to move our site over to one of the servers that uses letsencrypt this week. One of the points he made is that in January for web searches, the search engines are stating to display that a site is not secure so some people may not visit a site because they think it could be a bad site. He is trying to move all of his customers over to new servers that have SSL certificates.

    Ray

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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    Interesting Ray.
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    Default Re: Security Certificates

    there are some hosts [I beleive dreamhost is one] that will include the 'letsencrypt' certificates as part of your package [free of course]
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