This post will be whole about checking things before you enter your credit card number and personal details. It’s very important to know, that the Internet is a every unsafe place and you can never tell you are absolutely secure.
Hosting company check
The moment you have decided you will go with hosting company X is a very exciting moment, but I think it is worth thinking about the whole “sign up” process very carefully. I don’t tell you to think for a year, but what I am trying to tell you is to really thoroughly check the hosting company before you sign up. the reason for this is, that there are many scam web sites on the Internet and you can not be always sure if you did not arrive at such a web site.
Site link check
After you have checked the web hosting company of your choice and everything is still great, than there is the second step! Make sure you are on the right website. This lesson is very important and you should always check whether you are on the right site. You ask yourself, why would not you be? You clicked the link right?
Well, that’s a nice theory, but you should always check the link in the address bar very carefully to make sure you are not on hostgator.cx.com while you think you are on hostgator.com 
Sometimes you get an email from a “friend” who recommends you something or you click on a link on a web site and this takes you to the site. You think you are on the right web page while you are on an identical copy of the site, but with a different web address! You enter your personal and financial info and you are in big trouble!!!
Always check the address!!!
SSL or https check
While on the right web site and after a thorough company check the next step I would consider is checking if the company uses SSL encryption during the sign up procedure. SSL transfers secure the whole communication between your Computer and the server of the hosting company. It’s very important and I would recommend to go rather with a host who uses HTTPS, than with one without it!!! All the info you enter into a form while on a “https://something.com” website is encrypted and thus securely transferred over the Internet. while http traffic is sent in plain text!
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Another important thing here is to check who issued the certificate and for which company it has been issued. You do this by clicking on the “padlock” symbol in your browser. If the issuer is a trusted authority it’s OK, and it should state that the certificate is issued for company XXX and the domain name “host_domain.com”. If that’s missing or it is different than you should be be very careful and check it out all again from point 1. !!!
Recommendations
- Before actually buying or filling out any form always check the company
- If you enter your personal or financial/bank data anywhere on the website make sure it uses SSL [https in the address bar ]
- Check the issuer of the certificate and for what company the certificate has been issued for
- Check the address on which you are and closely check for any different characters in the address [like hostgator.cx.com is not the same as hostgator.com!!!]
I would also recommend to “bookmark” your web hosts web site in your browser to make your life easier and more secure. If you bookmark a site you are always taken to the same web site, but if you are always typing the whole address you could make a mistake and it could cost you a lot – identity theft, credit card info theft etc. !
Hopefully you liked this article and you will come back soon! Have a nice day and good luck
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