Question

My site will be using the APIs like Paypal and also making Facebook Apps. So lets say for Facebook, they allow only https for Apps to work with them. Mine is only hosted on http site.

• So can i solve this problem by buying a Shared Hosting with SSL included?

Is it a solution? or do i need to buy my own Certificate?

I’m not having enough knowledge about SSLs. Any suggestion please.

Answer 1

There are a lot of providers, that offer an SSL certificate for your domain, on shared hosting. Normally they will handle the installation for you, not sure if you can install your own certificate. Some providers even offer to use their own certificate for free, you will have to use an URL like https://www.providerdomain.com/yourdomain/... though.

Apart from unserious offerings, you can distinguish between cheaper domain-validated SSL certificates and the more expensive extended-validation SSL certificates (EV).
Both certificates are technically the same (the connection is encrypted), but domain-validated certificates are cheaper, because the seller only has to check the domain. The EV-certificates also require information about the owner of the domain, and the seller should check, if this information is correct (more administrative effort).

In most cases the domain-validated certificate is fine, the user will have no disadvantages and the EV-certificates are really (too) expensive.