advice SSL

[Grisu74]

Hello everyone I wanted some advice for my site and commerce Joomla / Virtuemart, which SSL certificate installed considering quality / price ratio, my site is on Aruba. thanks

www.venezianeplisse.com

[jenkinhill]

Ask you host what they would recommend to work best with their servers. It must work with the https://www.venezianeplisse.com url.  You will also need a dedicated IP address if you do not already have one.

[wrabbit]

Hi,
is you need information about certificates, please check http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-certificate-wizard.html or http://www.whichssl.com/
Certificate as file from any agency is the same, but differences are only in price, warranty and technical support.

For commercial web site check pls check GeoTrust, Commodo, Thawte, Symantec (ex VeriSign). They cost 200-400$ per year.

I used Comodo as free private certificate for email and they have good technical support.
However, last year hackers steal some certificates from Comodo. Is someone compromise your certificate and certificate agency is fault, they will be responsible.

Me and my friend have good experience with Thawte and VeriSign. They are good but expensive. Difference is arround 150-200$ and if you not take risk use some of them.
If they offer you EV option you will not need at begging because is too expensive and only mark URL in browser green color. Actually is you have big shop than you can buy it. If you plan to buy from some other agency such as GoDaddy be aware that the root certificate should be in your browser. It not problem for the latest version IE 9/10, Firefox, Chrome... Older browser IE 6 or 7 or even mobile browser don't have full list of root certificate especially if client don't have WSUS or similar update system.
If browser doesn't have root certificate, user will get warning like this

For self-signed certificate you can use http://www.openssl.org/ it's free

[Grisu74]

Thanks

[wrabbit]

You will also need a dedicated IP address if you do not already have one.

I forgot to answer....
IIS 8 on Win2012 has ability to host same certificate on several IP address. Old browser will not support this.
You can read more about SNI here
Of course, best way is to use Joomla on Apache+dedicate IP+certificate.

Grisu74, you welcome. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. SSL and certificates are not simple to understand.

[Grisu74]

In fact............ many thanks