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HTTP, HTTPS, And SSL... What They Are And How They Should Affect Your Choice of hosting agent...

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There are many things you have to learn on your own, anymore you would learn on from experiences.
Today, I just want to share the difference between HTTP and HTTPS, before we talk about SSL. Anyone really into web development, web hosting or reselling and stuff like this; must have come across these many times. If you look through the address of most sites, you would observe that many of them begin with "http"://www.something.com
while other have https://... Why? How are they different?
AS you know http stands for hypertext transfer protocol... the whole grammar simply means that http is the means of transfer of information across the internet. That is, when you make a request on your browser(e.g. www.facebook.com), http is just the agent that requests for the webpage you are trying to access from the server and displays it on your browser...

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With the increase of e-commerce came the need more security. HTTPS simply "secure HTTP".
Just as you are familiar with buying from site such as Jumia and co, you have... read more

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