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What is SSL and secure hosting?

Secure hosting is when the server your pages are hosted on encrypts the information on the page before it is sent to the person requesting the page. The persons web browser (eg. Internet Explorer) then decrypts the contents of the page automatically and displays it.

Using this secure hosting method has several advantages. Companies wishing to keep sensitive data away from anyone who should not see it, banking and ecommerce transactions, and secure logins, are just some of the features that can be achieved.

What is SSL?

SSL is an acronym for Secure Socket Layer. This is the method we use to encrypt your secure connections to clients. By using a 128-bit encryption secure connection, it is generally accepted that even the fastest computers would never be able to see your data.

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