Paypal want image on a Secure Server - help required please

[KingDomainNames]

A friend of mine accepts Paypal payment through her website.

She recently received an email from Paypal saying that she could change the background colour and use a logo, so those clients who pay her will have the feel of her website as they go through the Paypal part of the transaction.

However, when she tries to add her logo, Paypal wants the url for the logo, and that the url should be on a 'secure server' (i.e. have https:// at the start).

She's not sure what that means so she asked me.

Q: If her logo is going to be on a 'secure server', does that she would have had to purchase a SSL certificate from her webhost, in order to have the https:// ?

Many thanks,
Steve

[Ashton]

http://www.sslpic.com/

[monaghan]

She doesn't have to purchase her SSL from her host, however, she'll probably have to buy an IP address if she doesn't have a dedicated IP already (technically you can now use SSL on shared IP's but very few control panels support this).

[monaghan]

Originally Posted by Ashton

http://www.sslpic.com/

Surely putting your image onto a 3rd party freebie image hosting sort of gives the wrong impression to a paying customer?

[Ashton]

Originally Posted by monaghan

Surely putting your image onto a 3rd party freebie image hosting sort of gives the wrong impression to a paying customer?

Better impression than a 'some parts of this site are not secure' warning? Its an easier solution, but not the best solution.

Also highly unlikely a customer will bother to look where the image is hosted.

[monaghan]

For the small cost of an SSL and that it is for a business I'd suggest self hosting the image as you have full control.

Of course any location behind an SSL will meet the basic technical requirements of PayPal.

[KingDomainNames]

@ Ashton - many thanks. Took a look and will suggest it to my friend as an option, so she can then make her decision.

@ monaghan - many thanks for your reply.

She doesn't have to purchase her SSL from her host, however, she'll probably have to buy an IP address if she doesn't have a dedicated IP already (technically you can now use SSL on shared IP's but very few control panels support this).

For the small cost of an SSL and that it is for a business I'd suggest self hosting the image as you have full control.

I didn't realise you could have hosting with one company and the SSL with another - interesting.
She has the basic hosting package with Fasthosts, and I have a feeling she'd prefer to have their SSL too, to keep things all together.
However, I've looked at the Fasthosts website and cannot find out how much a SSL costs ? Grrr..

Also, I think an SSL may be a better option too. The reason is that I recently heard that Facebook are requiring all Page owners, from October 2011, to ensure they are using a SSL for hosting any images/videos that they use in their custom Facebook tabs (using the old FBML or iFrames coding), as otherwise those images/videos may not show to all visitors to that Page.
She may have a tab on her page which uses FBML on a custom tab (of course, FBML is currently being phased out).

Do either of you, or anyone else, know how much Fasthosts' SSL is please ?

Cheers,
Steve

[bensd]

Originally Posted by KingDomainNames

However, I've looked at the Fasthosts website and cannot find out how much a SSL costs ? Grrr..

https://help.fasthosts.co.uk/app/ans...certificate%3F

[KingDomainNames]

@ bensd - that is brilliant. Thank you very much indeed

[monaghan]

It might be worth asking what type of SSL they are providing as the cost on the page linked to seems too low for a premium cert, but high for a budget cert.