Encrypted pages - SSL Https start-up help needed 1

[Pav1977]

Hi there,
Where to start looking if I want to start handling subscriptions – with online payments on my sites. At the moment I’m using third party company that handles it all for including creating the forms and then we incorporate it in our sites using HTTPS with 256 encryption key.
How difficult it is to start doing myself and what sort of training do I need and is it very demanding in terms of hardware? – there isn’t that much traffic on it - about 1000 users per site with 3 sites at the moment to make payments once a year and about 20% rotation.
Also what can be done about postcode / sort code validation do I still need to use third party software for it like QAS or can it be handled somehow differently?

Any suggestions from people who’ve done it themselves - will be very appreciated.

Thank you,

Pav

 

[GUJUm0deL]

You can build your own custom subscription based application using server-side programming language like Coldfusion that interacts with a dB, usually MS SQL Sever or Access.

The way i'd handle this is:
1. Develop my own app using Coldfusion with SQL Server dB
2. Store NON-SENSITIVE user info in my dB (upon form submission). For SENSITIVE information you'd better encrypt the info.
3. After a successful insert into dB, connect to a 3rd party vendor for payment, then redirect back to you site where store the order info.
4. If all goes good, then you show the user a 'thankyou' page, if not show an 'error' page.

Make sure you get a security certificate from your hosting company or from verisign before doing anything else.

There are lots of other precautions you can take to make sure the site is secure and whatnot.

Or, you can hire someone to develop this for you.

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