Quite a few of you have been asking what our new EV SGC SSL certificates do, and why they are “so expensive”. Hopefully we’ll explain in relatively simple terms below why these certificates are worth every penny…
Shared SSL certificates are now available at no extra charge on Multihost and Enterprise shared hosting accounts. Shared SSL certificates enable you to ensure customer details or ecommerce records are transferred securely via a third level domain without purchasing a signed certificate of your own.
Since our last Dublin update we’ve had a few users having issues with their old OSCommerce installs. Below you’ll find the most common problem and fix.
The problem: Error Message - 1054 - Unknown column ‘p.products_id’ in ‘on clause’
The fix: Download the instructions helpfully provided by ozstar.
Pipe Ten’s SSL certificates cost £60 per year including installation, click here for full details.
The most common way to protect your online transactions is by using SSL secure server certificates and https. SSL allows visitors to view your web site via https, the encrypted, secure protocol (like http but with ’s’ for ’secure’) rather than http. By using https, each and every transaction of data between you and your client is encrypted.
Yes. You can process credit cards on your web site by establishing a merchant account with a payment gateway provider. osCommerce, one of our shopping carts, provides an interface for most third-party online credit card processors.
Yes. We offer the OSCommerce shopping software which is installable for free through the online control panel.
Please look at the compare plans page or contact support for pricing.
You may currently have a ’self-signed’ certificate installed. Certificates will commonly display an error on two occasions:
Yes you can use SSL and the https protocol on our servers. SSL can be set up in your control panel and requires dedicated IP address. SSL allows your web site to transfer information to and accept information from visitors in an encrypted form using the https protocol. You can also install a SSL certificate through the online control panel.