Need to know if only 1 SSL Certificate needed for all the Sites Comes under a Cloud With Shared Hosting?

Question

We Have Developed and Deployed Our Own Web-applications in A windows Cloud Server In Different domains,We need Encryption In Everyone of them,Question is that Do i need Separate Certificate For every Domain OR One Certificate For Cloud Server will do the job for all the domains?

Answer 1

It sounds like you need a multi-domain certificate, which are ssl certificates that can secure multiple domains (including wildcard domains and fqdns) and hostnames in a single ssl certificate. They are ideal for cloud services where the number of allocated ip addresses are limited yet must be shared with multiple virtual hosts.Their are sites like SSL.com that sell all the different certificates and they would be able to confirm exactly what you need.

Answer 2

It depends completely on the SSL certificate. Some will cover multiple domain names (these are normally more expensive), some will cover a single domain + all of it's sub domains (www., secure, example, anything.site.com) and some will only cover a specific, specified sub/domain (secure.site.com or example.site.com site.com/anything-after) etc



If in doubt, I recommend you ask your hosting provider exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish. They should be willing to point you into the right direction.

Answer 3

I'm reasonably sure the Domain Names get the SSL certification, so normally every one would need it. Here's one service that bundles multiple names under one SSL

https://www.globalsign.com/ssl/multi-domain-ssl/



There are also different levels of certification, you have to get a better one to get the company name appearing in the URL bar if a browser.