SSL Certificates https connections & websites in future
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:31 pm
I too have my own website but i'm with an agent who takes bookings and monies on my behalf.
So my website is nothing more than an internet presence at the mo.
But i'm seriously looking at dumping the agent and doing things myself......But
i have several websites hosted on my own server but i'm seriously thinking of taking payments via a merchant service "Stripe" on two of them, one of which is my Cottage Website. I was looking at using holidaylivebooking.co.uk as a booking calendar that uses Stripe to take payments. This will / does work as visitors get a secure connection (https://) when parting with their card info, but only to take card payments.
However in a matter of months (Before the end of the Year) i can see all search engines and the companies that develop our web browsers demanding SSL Certification and secure (https://) connections for ALL websites regardless of whether we take card payments or not as the new minimum standard.
How this will happen in the long run i'm sure will unfold as time goes by but at the mo all webhosters are demanding extra monies per month / year for each separate domain name to become SSL Certified.
I can see future domain name registrations being SSL Certified as standard in future as long as you host with the registrar. This will probably push up the cost of domain name registration too though. I can see many domain names becoming free (Unregistered) soon as registrations elapse for them as owners decide it's too expensive to keep them.
If you don't have your ideal domain registered in your name because somebody else has it at the mo it may become available as it's registration comes to an end in future.
ALL search engines and browsers will shortly toughen up even further on insecure (http://) websites and display a more permanent, much larger, more prominent "In Your Face" security messages saying that your website is Insecure.
Regardless of whether you take card payments or not which will very much put off visitors from the outset even if you use a secure payment system to take card payments at a later stage via some merchant service.
So my website is nothing more than an internet presence at the mo.
But i'm seriously looking at dumping the agent and doing things myself......But
i have several websites hosted on my own server but i'm seriously thinking of taking payments via a merchant service "Stripe" on two of them, one of which is my Cottage Website. I was looking at using holidaylivebooking.co.uk as a booking calendar that uses Stripe to take payments. This will / does work as visitors get a secure connection (https://) when parting with their card info, but only to take card payments.
However in a matter of months (Before the end of the Year) i can see all search engines and the companies that develop our web browsers demanding SSL Certification and secure (https://) connections for ALL websites regardless of whether we take card payments or not as the new minimum standard.
How this will happen in the long run i'm sure will unfold as time goes by but at the mo all webhosters are demanding extra monies per month / year for each separate domain name to become SSL Certified.
I can see future domain name registrations being SSL Certified as standard in future as long as you host with the registrar. This will probably push up the cost of domain name registration too though. I can see many domain names becoming free (Unregistered) soon as registrations elapse for them as owners decide it's too expensive to keep them.
If you don't have your ideal domain registered in your name because somebody else has it at the mo it may become available as it's registration comes to an end in future.
ALL search engines and browsers will shortly toughen up even further on insecure (http://) websites and display a more permanent, much larger, more prominent "In Your Face" security messages saying that your website is Insecure.
Regardless of whether you take card payments or not which will very much put off visitors from the outset even if you use a secure payment system to take card payments at a later stage via some merchant service.