How to secure a website with an SSL Certificate

In a previous article on this blog, we have already extensively addressed the connection between "HTTPS, Google and indexing", explaining in detail how we arrived at today's situation of favoring all web pages that use the secure HTTPS protocol over the HTTP protocol.

So here's what appears on sites that haven't used HTTPS for a few weeks:

Chrome is not the only browser that has chosen to warn users, more explicitly, that some sites do not use the HTTPS protocol, especially in sections where certain information considered sensitive is requested. Firefox (in v.51) has also decided to adopt similar behavior and, on pages that require entering a password, highlights a "padlock" with a red bar next to the address to indicate that the connection is not secure:

What impact does this have on your website users? At this point we can say that both Google and Firefox believe it is essential that all websites sooner or later switch to the secure HTTPS protocol, to guarantee greater browsing safety for all users who visit certain web pages. This means that if your site contains pages for accessing restricted areas with the insertion of sensitive user data and passwords, it is absolutely necessary that you configure them in HTTPS.

The configuration and activation of an SSL Certificate, which allows the activation of the HTTPS protocol, will not only give users a perception of greater security of your site, but will certainly improve its performance and positioning on search engines.

Your site is hosted on HOST.IT ...then you can continue reading what news we have in store for all our customers. Our team of developers and systems engineers has always had an eye for security and, also on this occasion, we want to offer all our customers who have a site hosted on our servers the possibility of staying up to date by activating an SSL Certificate for your websites, completely free of charge.

To activate your SSL Certificate we have prepared a special guide that explains step by step how to enter the HTTPS era

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For everyone else who has a website hosted by another provider and wants to activate an SSL Certificate to enable HTTPS and gain in terms of reliability with their users, performance and positioning for the website, the advice is