Hi,

First of all, the office is open from 7:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday Los Angeles time. Email support is available 24/7 whilst the telephone support is only during office hours.

The forums are obviously here all the time, so you were right to ask here.

Upgrading your account to get an SSL connection going isn't a standard upgrade. I haven't heard of anyone getting it, but it is probably possible.

It shouldn't be too expensive, most of the possible upgrades are around $2.50, but don't quote me on that because I am not responsible for setting up billing.

The point I'm trying to put across is that it shouldn't be too expensive.

By the way, I deleted your other 3 identical posts in the other sections. Please only post your message once, don't worry, it will still get seen. All posts are answered.

If you have a small site, you probably aren't going to be purchasing your own "certificate," so you don't need to upgrade to the premium account.  You can use LP's certificate on a "shared" basis.  That means when you link to your secure page, you will use "https://[server].lunarpages.com/~[username]", instead of "https://[mydomain.com]."

What are you planning to put on your secure page?  Putting it on a secure page is only half the battle.  You still have to get the data OFF the server securely.

I regret I can't help you on the JMail, as I'm not familiar with it.  But somebody will

By "link to", he meant any page that points to your final form where they put in sensitive info must start with https://

As for transferring data from the server securely, you can encrypy email and have a key to decrypt, but unless you spend money, you would have to use something like PGP with a public key; that is a potential risk.  Or, you can secure download (see below).

I will give you the same advice I give my web customers.
Let somebody handle the dirtywork.  Lunar's support team will help you get set up or set it up for you (for a fair price) and make sure all is in place to safely transact.

Or you can go to 2checkout.com, give them their $50 setup fee, and let them take care of it.  They provide secure server, transaction, and a merchant account.  They'll deposit to a bank account or mail you a check every 15 days.

There's nothing wrong with doing it all yourself, of course.  The folks at Lunar will go out of their way to help you get and stay set up.  But I'm sure you realize there is a lot to secure online ordering, and it could save you 'tuition' to pay someone who does it regularly and will handle all the 'dirtywork'.  If you have a merchant account and you want to manually enter sales into your card machine, then I would suggest possibly a secure (SSH) file transfer at least twice a day, with possibly PGP encryption.