All accounts come with a free SSL Certificate if you want to use it.
To setup your free LetsEncrypt certificate on a website do the following:
- Login to your hosting control panel.
- Click Web Sites
- Click the website you want to enable SSL on.
- Click the SSL tab.
- Click Install (free) LetsEncrypt Certificate.
- Your free certificate is now installed.
Important Notes:
Our system uses HTTP authorisation to get your certificate issued by LetsEncrypt's remote servers.
This means the domains pointed at your website in our control panel must be resolving to our web server.
If any of the domains assigned to the website are not pointed at the web server then the LetsEncrypt installation will fail.
For this same reason please ensure you temporarily disable any force SSL redirects before you install the certificate. Once its installed you can re-enable it.
For more information and a workaround for this please see the link below:
https://portal.winserve.co.uk/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/107/Lets-Encrypt-not-installing-or-renewing.html
Limited Support:
Please note that these free certificates are provided as is.
We provide the technology to install them in our control panel which uses LetsEncrpt's API to get the certifcates issued and then our CP installs them on your websites.
If Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) ever stop providing and renewing these certificates free of charge then clients certificates installed on our systems will not be renewed and will expire.
We make no guarantee that LetsEncrypt certificates will always work or renew as they rely on ISRG and their services functioning which we have no control over.
Therefore if clients prefer a fully managed and guaranteed SSL certificate solution we recommend purchasing a commercial certificate from Winserve. These certificates are issued, installed, renewed and fully supported manually by our own technical team. You can view our wide selection of certificates by clicking here.
