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4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

Now - because Chrome will warn a user that my web page is not secure - eBay is worried buyers will panic and go away. So since I use photos in my item description from my own server, which does not use https, eBay will not display my item description unless the buyer clicks on a special link. And then they'll get that warning anyway, right?

I don't have any idea how to make my domain use https instead of http - and trying to communicate with Yahoo tech support is a losing battle - last time they said they didn't "know" my ftp software and directed me to a link to install a free ftp software that also installed malware.

Does anyone else have a domain hosted by Yahoo and know how to fix this?

newview · ‎09-09-2017

If Yahoo tech support cannot understand your need to have an SSL Certificate for your domain, in order to host https content, then I would RUN, not walk, to move my domain to another host asap.

That is what you need done, and any domain host should know that as soon as you relay information that you need to host https content.

I recently had an SSL Certificate intstalled on my domain, for the same exact reason, and my domain host installed it & I was up & running in less than an hour. It cost me an extra $29.95 a year in hosting fees. This was done via their Chat function, no phone calls, no muss, no fuss.

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

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newview · ‎09-09-2017

If Yahoo tech support cannot understand your need to have an SSL Certificate for your domain, in order to host https content, then I would RUN, not walk, to move my domain to another host asap.

That is what you need done, and any domain host should know that as soon as you relay information that you need to host https content.

I recently had an SSL Certificate intstalled on my domain, for the same exact reason, and my domain host installed it & I was up & running in less than an hour. It cost me an extra $29.95 a year in hosting fees. This was done via their Chat function, no phone calls, no muss, no fuss.

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

That's encouraging, thanks - I'll try contacting Yahoo.

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

well this is interesting - does this mean I have to get a new web hosting service?

Someone asked on the Yahoo Small Businuess forum in February 2016...

I'd like to know if I can encrypt my site. and to make it HTTPS to keep in keeping with Google's new announcements to show non-secure sites as non-secure.

Yahoo's reply...

Hey Bryce, right now there isn't a way to have your site use HTTPS but we are looking at this as an option for future releases.

newview · ‎09-09-2017

@4hearts wrote:
well this is interesting - does this mean I have to get a new web hosting service?

If they haven't added the capabilty for SSL hosting since 2016, as the converation indicates ... then Yes, you will need to find another web hosting service. Probably a blessing in disguise, imho.

For what it's worth, I've used a half-dozen different hosts, for different domains, over the last 10-12 years, and BY FAR the best I've ever dealt with is Hostgator, who I'm with now and have been for the last 5 years. Great support via their Ticket System, Chat or Phone, with knowledgeable and friendly CS staff who don't "talk down" to you. They're not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for.

I'm sure there are others out there just as good, but I tend to stay with the service that I've found provides that service fairly & consistently and at a competitive price.

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

mistwomandancing · ‎09-09-2017

I would guess it's Yahoo that is creating *more work* for you. My advice would be to dump them. Well, just saying I haven't ever heard much good about Yahoo.

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

Thanks a lot for the recommendation - I was just looking at cnet's list of best shared hosting plans and that's on it - I'll definitely talk to them!

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

You're right - I should have dumped them long ago - when you can't trust customer service, it's time.

I've got a Yahoo email id with 10+ years of my life's history and wish I could move all that someplace else too.

mistwomandancing · ‎09-09-2017

4hearts wrote:
You're right - I should have dumped them long ago - when you can't trust customer service, it's time.
I've got a Yahoo email id with 10+ years of my life's history and wish I could move all that someplace else too.

aybe just let that email ID ride so that you can keep all your past history that's already on it, but open a new gmail account and attach that to your eBay/PayPal, etc. so that you can go forward from here without this problem.

tev4all · ‎09-09-2017

Maybe try not putting pictures in the description area, there is a section for Pics. that you are already using.

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

That's true - sometimes I need more than 12, but not often. The thing is, I have 3400 listings with pictures and census records in the description that I have to fix. I think from now on I'll just use the gallery photos and maybe eventually I won't have to use my server at all - but until then, I've got to change all those listings - after I change my web hosting.

deep-garnet-red · ‎09-09-2017

Simply put, there is no reason to use those pics. You are the one creating more work for yourself.

4hearts · ‎09-09-2017

Yes, I'll do that - time to move on 🙂

newview · ‎09-09-2017

@mistwomandancing wrote:
I would guess it's Yahoo that is creating *more work* for you. My advice would be to dump them. Well, just saying I haven't ever heard much good about Yahoo.

Oh, you mean that Yahoo (and 1 BILLION of their email subscribers) being the "victim" of the largest data breach in history, and the fact they didn't report it for TWO years doesn't impress you?

Yahoo hack: 1bn accounts compromised by biggest data breach in history

“For years I have been urging friends and family to migrate off of Yahoo email, mainly because I watched for years as the company appeared to fall far behind its peers in blocking spam and other email-based attacks,” wrote security researcher Brian Krebs as news of the attack broke. “I stand by that recommendation.”

I'm ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ certain the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

mistwomandancing · ‎09-09-2017

newview wrote:
mistwomandancing wrote:
I would guess it's Yahoo that is creating *more work* for you. My advice would be to dump them. Well, just saying I haven't ever heard much good about Yahoo.
Oh, you mean that Yahoo (and 1 BILLION of their email subscribers) being the "victim" of the largest data breach in history, and the fact they didn't report it for TWO years doesn't impress you?

lol !!! Yahoo actually is one of my several accounts, but I've never used it for anything. And basically because it's.... Yahoo. Sort of makes ya' squirm to think of putting anything online through them, but from what I hear, most of us are already quite exposed to any who are a step above kindergarden in digging and detecting.

Hope the OP can get the problem all sorted out pretty easily.