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One more question.

If I have a resellers account can I have an SSL Certificate under my domain name which I can share with my clients or do they have to either use their own or the UH shared certificate?

thanks

rob

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ChrisEvans

I think you can do:

servername.domain.com

And buy an SSL for servername.domain.com - that would work.

percepts

Now thats what I call fast!

Thanks,

p.s.

Are the regular UH guys on holiday?

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ChrisEvans

Nope UH guys are around. I'm pretty certain that would work though. I've got servername.domain.com setup for me. But I haven't added an SSL certificate... shouldn't make any difference... BUT I may be wrong.

If it does work, you'll need an IP address and an SSL certificate.

I believe it's £2 a month for the IP and £59 a year for SSL.

Andy

I believe you can actually get away without buying an IP address at all for one SSL certificate with reseller accounts and use one of the nameserver ip addresses for it instead. You'll have to ask UH about this one though as they might prefer you to use a different static ip address.

I hadn't thought of the servername.domain.com idea. Wouldn't the actual web content have to be under the webspace corresponding to domain.com though - that might rule out sharing the SSL certificate with all domains under a reseller account unless you own them all.

Andy

ChrisEvans

Hi Andy,
By that I meant customers would have to access sites as follows:

https://servername.customerdomain.com/~sitedomain.com/

UH-Simon

Yah, we're here, just testing out ChrisEvans theory to see if it would work

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Andy

Ahh i didnt really think through exactly what you meant. If it's possible withouth UH having to mess with the Apache configuration (not convinced it is) would it not also mean that anyone on the same server could use that same shared SSL certificate though in the same way everyone on that server can use the UH shared certificate?

Andy

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And does it?

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ChrisEvans

percepts - give them a chance.

UH-Simon

No, you would not be able to do this. The domain preview URL (which is what the shared SSL path uses) is only setup using the server hostname. You would need to either use a dedicated SSL certificate for each clients site or use the UH shared SSL certificate.

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ChrisEvans

I may be misunderstanding something here but I've got server.mydomain.com which loads the main server page and I can also access the preview area.

Surely you can just apply an IP and SSL to that server.mydomain.com?

percepts

Thanks,

I guess that means that its a dedicated cert for clients if they want SSL as far as I'm concerned.

rob

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ChrisEvans

You could you the shared SSL though surely percepts? Since it'd make little difference?

Andy

I guess if you were to purchase an SSL certificate for the reseller domain name you could then give customers access to their own subdomain within your reseller domain. Trouble is you would be eating up your own bandwidth, unless you can measure and charge for subdomain bandwidth they use.

I think it's easier to just stick with the UH shared SSL or else get dedicated SSL certificates per domain.

Andy

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if I use the UH shared cert then I tell my clients who I host with giving them the opportunity to bypass me. So its dedicated certs if I can't use a shared one with my domain name.

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UH-Simon

If you are on a reseller server then the URL you would use would have our unbranded address in it and not unitedhosting.co.uk. This was done to make things more transparent to your customers.

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In which case that answers the question

thank you

rob

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