Secure your sites while surfing on the public wifi

Lifehacker had an interesting article about how easy it is to packet sniff in open WiFi hotspots with a free Mac application.  One way to secure your surfing is to use https when you are viewing sites, if it's available.  Certain sites like web e-mail should only be viewed with https when using a wireless hotspot.

I found that GMail is accessible via https. Google Reader and Google Calendar are also accessible although none of the web applications that are linked at the top of GMail go to https so you have to actually type the address back in.

I set up my FireFox bookmarks to go to my Google Apps with https so that way I don't have to think about.

But then I tried for giggles what would happen if I typed in https://www.damnralph.com, you get a completely different site.  I think it's because I am on a shared hosting environment and that maybe the only site that has a secure site on our IP.  Anyone have an explaination as to why/how that would happen?

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