ifIf you generate your SSL Certificate by yourself, HTTPS/SSL will work, but a browser will issueissue a warning encouraging the user to not trust the site, as there is. There will be no way to tell if the site youwebsite your visitors are accessing is really who they say they areit is. So you need an authentication from a Root CA to avoid this problem. To get this authentication you need to pay.
But now the things are changing. You could read aboutcan explore the Let's Encrypt initiative;project; its aim is to provide a free CA. It will generate legitimate certs that are trusted by a significant percentage of browsers.
Fixed grammar and typography. Added link to Wikipedia article about Let's Encrypt.
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