SSL is an acronym for Secure Sockets Layer, an encryption technology. HTTPS is the same as standard web traffic (HTTP) but using the SSL encryption to make the website traffic secure.
The primary reason why SSL is used is to keep sensitive information sent across the Internet encrypted so that only the intended recipient can understand it. This is important because the information you send on the Internet is passed from computer to computer to get to the destination server. Any computer in between you and the server can see your credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, and other sensitive information if it is not encrypted with an SSL certificate. When an SSL certificate is used, the information becomes unreadable to everyone except for the server you are sending the information to. This protects it from hackers and identity thieves.
Benefits of SSL for your website
Google announced back in 2014 that websites using secure socket layers otherwise known as SSL (or HTTPS) for their websites would rank slightly higher than those sites without. This is due to a big push in the IT community to make our web traffic more secure and giving peace of mind to your clients using your website that their form submissions or shop purchases are secure.
How can we help?
With Cloud Edge, any website you have created by us or our team from the 1st of September 2016, we’ll be throwing in a free SSL certificates for the life of your website!
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