SSL For free?
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Yep, via cPanel's AutoSSL mechanism you can use Comodo certificates or LetsEncrypt certs.
kyliewong
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Dan
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Hi kyliewong,
Yes that would be correct, as @KH-Jonathan said you can use Comodo or LetsEncrypt in the AutoSSL applet of WHM.
Hope that helps!
Yes that would be correct, as @KH-Jonathan said you can use Comodo or LetsEncrypt in the AutoSSL applet of WHM.
Hope that helps!
samdecruze9
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Yes recently I have checked the home page of knownhost, It offers free SSL and VPS just like Bluehost or Hostgator, etc.
Functionally they're the same. LetsEncrypt has tighter restrictions on number of requests and such but in the end it doesn't much matter.
DirectAdmin and cPanel both provide certificates for the server and then every eligible domain placed on the server.
cPanel provides 1 year signed certificates for the hostname (server) and then 90 day certificates for every eligible domain via AutoSSL (Sectigo) or Let's Encrypt.
DirectAdmin uses Let's Encrypt for everything, hostname, domains, etc -- all 90 day certificates.
When in doubt, open a support ticket and we'll be glad to check for you.
cPanel provides 1 year signed certificates for the hostname (server) and then 90 day certificates for every eligible domain via AutoSSL (Sectigo) or Let's Encrypt.
DirectAdmin uses Let's Encrypt for everything, hostname, domains, etc -- all 90 day certificates.
The only way you wouldn't be eligible is if your VPS was using CentOS 6 (32-bit) with cPanel as cPanel would be stuck to version 11.56 which is before AutoSSL was fully utilized and available.
When in doubt, open a support ticket and we'll be glad to check for you.
cPanel did send me an email a short time ago saying they were installing a new certificate for the hostname, and that it auto-renews each year. They didn't mention the other domains.
I just tried one of the other domains using https and it worked. I checked the certificate used and it shows a cPanel certificate for that web site that started on 1/9/2020 and goes to 4/9/2020. So that's 90 days. The site has been there for several years on this server, and I don't remember ever enabling the SSL for it, so I assume cPanel did it automatically at some point. Do those 90 day ones also auto-renew every 90 days as long as I keep paying for cPanel?
It has:
CENTOS 7.7 virtuozzo
WHM / cPanel v84.0.21
The certificate will auto-renew for as long as it points to your server and the cPanel license remains active.
If you're operating an eCommerce site that takes forms of payment I would go with one of the paid for SSLs due to the fact they have warranties to back them up as well as guarantees. The free SSLs are just there for basic coverage and to give you the padlock and https in the url thanks largely to Google a few years back.
OK, so no eCommerce for the near future. Maybe next year.
In the mean time, I notice that going to the http version of these web pages gives me a broken lock icon. Which I suspect might hurt me at Google & Bing. Should I create a rewrite rule for each site to force requests for http to instead go to https? Any reason not to? Is it easy? It's been a few years since I tried any rewrite rules on a site. (that was before I came to KH four years ago)
In the mean time, I notice that going to the http version of these web pages gives me a broken lock icon. Which I suspect might hurt me at Google & Bing. Should I create a rewrite rule for each site to force requests for http to instead go to https? Any reason not to? Is it easy? It's been a few years since I tried any rewrite rules on a site. (that was before I came to KH four years ago)