Let's Encrypt Hosting

If you are looking for the cheapest and easiest way to add Secure-Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) to your website, you should consider Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt by the Internet Security Research Group’s (ISRG) is designed to provide free, automated, and open security certificate authority (CA) for everyone. It enables website owners to get security certificates within minutes.

Google penalizes your site if you don’t have a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. If you have an e-commerce site, there’s even worse news. Chrome web browser users will find your payment pages marked unsafe. That’s one way to close your business down in a hurry.

Key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are:

• Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can use Let’s Encrypt to get a trusted certificate at zero cost.
• Automatic: Software running on a webserver can interact with Let’s Encrypt to painlessly obtain a certificate, securely configure it for use, and automatically take care of renewal.
• Secure: Let’s Encrypt will advance TLS security best practices, both on the Certificate Authority (CA) side and by helping site operators properly secure their servers.
• Transparent: All certificates issued or revoked will be publicly recorded and available for anyone to inspect.
• Open: The automatic issuance and renewal protocol will be published as an open standard that others can adopt.
• Cooperative: Much like the Internet protocols themselves, Let’s Encrypt is a joint effort to benefit the community, beyond any one organization’s control.

Technically, Let’s Encrypt management software uses Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) to:

• Automatically prove to the Let’s Encrypt CA that you control the website.
• Obtain a browser-trusted certificate and set it up on your web server.
• Keep track of when your certificate will expire, and automatically renew it.
• Help you revoke the certificate if that ever becomes necessary.