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Learn how to configure your Magento store to use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate, which allows your site to exchange encrypted information with web users.

Follow our simple OpenSSL CSR generation process to secure your website with an SSL certificate.

Nexcess customers on non-cloud infrastructure can learn how to buy wildcard SSL certificate in this article. Nexcess Cloud customers can see our reference to another related article.

How Nexcess Cloud clients can generate a CSR for use when applying for SSL certificates.

Why you may ignore the SSL warning within SiteWorx when using a dedicated server.

SSL certificates are digital certificates that authenticate your website’s identity and allow for secure transmission of sensitive information.

How to cancel an existing SSL certificate attached to a Nexcess service from within your Nexcess Client Portal.

Standing for server name indication, SNI is an TLS protocol extension that allows a server to connect multiple SSL certificates a single IP address.

Extended Validation certificates — or Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates — allow a domain owner to assign multiple domains and sub-domains to a single SSL certificate.

A self-signed SSL certificate does not use the chain of trust used by other SSL certificates and is often used to perform internal testing without the effort of acquiring a standard SSL certificate.