Multiple ecommerce stores - 1 SSL cert
New here and not sure if I am posting this to the right room. Please let me know if there is a better room to post this to.
Here is what I do...
I own multiple niche ecommerce sites and I am always testing and adding new sites.
Here is my "problem"...
I use OScommerce for my ecommerce sites. When I have an idea for a new site, I need to buy and SSL cert for it once I go live and start advetising it. Problem is, if the site tanks, I have wasted money on the SSL cert. This gets pretty expensive, not to mention I am spending money on advertising.
Here is what I want to do...
I have multiple sites, but I operate under one business name. To keep it simple, let's say that my company name is ABC Company.
What I want to do is basically buy one SSL cert and kind of create my own shared SSL that I can use for all my sites and mainly for the test sites so that I do not waste money on a new SSL cert befoer I know if the site will generate anough profit to keep it going.
So my thought was to buy a domain like "secureABCcompany.com", buy an SSL cert for it, and use it as basically a shared cert for all my sites. So if I have 5 sites..
111.com
222.com
333.com
444.com and
555.com
all would use the same cert from secureABCcompany.com. So the first site would use secureABCcompany.com/111, the second secureABCcompany.com/222, and so on. Sure, I could have every site as a subdomain of secureABCcompany.com (like 111.secureABCcompany.com or 222.secureABCcompany.com, but then that would require me to buy a wildcard SSL cert, which is more expensive.
CONFUSING, I hope not, I really need help here.
My questions are...
1. Can I acheive this by using a multi-domain host or do I need to use a reseller hosting package to achieve this?
2. Can you think of a better solution?
By the way, I already understand that I can just go with a multidomain host that offers shared SSL, but I do not want to use someone elses shared SSL because of many reasons. 1st being, I hear that it can be really slow if there are many folks using it and #2, I really don't like the thought of using someones elses shared SSL because it may seem shady to my customer. For instance, I know of one multi-domain host that offers shared SSL and their secure server site is "www.mysecurehostingsite.com". I think that looks bad and possibly may look bad to my customers as well. Your thoughts on this would be good as well.
Anyhow, sorry for the confusing post. I could not think of a better way to ask my question.
I hope I can get some good feedback, suggests, etc here on this matter and remember, the key here is to save money.
Thanks in advance.
