Obaydullah Likhon | XonHost Knowledge Base

What are the differences between Let’s Encrypt and the other SSLs you offer?

In terms of secure encryption, they are equal. All are trusted by the major browsers. Also all display the green padlock in the address bar of your browser. Still there are the following differences: Let’s Encrypt doesn’t offer dynamic site … Continued

What is Let’s Encrypt?

Let’s Encrypt is a free certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Let’s Encrypt provide two types of certificates. The standard single domain SSL and the Wildcard SSL, which covers not only a single domain, but all … Continued

Can I use the private SSL for the primary domain with an addon domain?

The recent SNI technology allows multiple SSL certificates to be installed on one IP address, therefore it is possible that an account has more than one private SSL certificate associated to it. As of December 2016, you can use separate and different private … Continued

Is having an SSL certificate affecting the loading speed of my website?

Having an SSL certificate on your website will allow you to access it securely over an HTTPS connection. HTTPS now works with HTTP/2 which allows much faster connection for all modern web browsers, than the regular HTTP protocol. With this HTTPS functionality your … Continued

Securing the connection to the Redsys Payment Gateway

Redsys is a popular payment gateway that you can use with popular e-commerce solutions like WooCommerce, PrestaShop, and Magento. The Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority and SNI is not currently supported by Redsys. However, alternative methods to use the payment gateway are available. The communication between … Continued

How to Configure your Google Analytics profile to load your site via https

To reconfigure your Google Analytics profile to work via https, first login to Analytics with your Google account. Next, select the site/property you want to reconfigure and press the Admin button at the bottom of the left menu. Under the Property tab, select the Property … Continued

How can I add SSL seal (SSL secure image) on my front page?

In most cases you need to add custom code to your website in order to display the SSL site seal for your SSL provider. For GlobalSign you can find the JavaScript code that you should implement in your pages – GlobalSign SSL … Continued

Website mixed content

In many cases when you install an SSL certificate for your website and reconfigure it to open via HTTPS, there are still items on the website’s pages that are requested via HTTP. This can be internal resources situated on your … Continued

Is it possible to hide the .htaccess file in FTP?

Unfortunately it is not possible to completely hide any files in FTP including .htaccess. This is due to the FTP technology which does not recognize the .htaccess file as a service file.

Is SFTP access available?

Yes, SFTP is available on all hosting solutions offered by XonHost. Please note that SFTP requires that SSH access to the server is enabled. More information on how to enable SSH access can be found in this article: How do I activate SSH access … Continued

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