Free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates for All!

With an SSL certificate, the data exchange between the web browser and web server is encrypted and thus protected against access by third parties.

If you secure your website with an SSL certificate, you show your visitors that the data transmitted via your website is secure. Especially if login data, payment information such as credit card numbers or other sensitive data is transmitted, you should always use an SSL certificate.

This means that your website can be accessed via http(s):// instead of http://, which is also labelled as a secure connection in the browser.

We offer you free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt or business certificates from our partner GeoTrust.

The Let's Encrypt initiative was launched by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), consisting of various companies, such as the browser manufacturer Mozilla, and provides free SSL certificates.

The mission of the ISRG is to make communication on the Internet secure, regardless of the technical or financial capabilities of the respective user. Let's Encrypt certificates are included in all easyname hosting packages.

Let's Encrypt certificates use a key length of 256-bit. This technology is also used by banks to protect sensitive data.

With a Let's Encrypt certificate, your data is also transmitted securely with us.

With a wildcard SSL certificate, you can secure an unlimited number of subdomains of a domain with a single certificate.

This means that you can provide "*.mydomain.com" with SSL certificates with a single click.

If you use many subdomains, this saves you a lot of effort and costs compared to using several individual certificates.

Please note that no wildcard certificates are available if you use the free Let's Encrypt certificates from us. Here you have to activate a separate certificate for each domain/subdomain.

In contrast to the free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, you can also download the conventional paid SSL certificates that you purchase from easyname and use them on other platforms such as your own mail server.

In addition, the paid SSL certificates also include insurance cover from the respective provider.

You can find more information about this here.

If you purchase an SSL certificate for your website or use our free Let's Encrypt certificates, this can bring you advantages if you want to optimise your website for search engines.

You can check this by looking at the top 10 search results that appear under your keywords. If only websites that use https:// are listed there, you can assume that Google favours such websites.

Please note that Google uses over 200 ranking factors. This means that SSL is only a small part of them and is no guarantee that you will get a better ranking.

The biggest advantage is that https:// protected websites increase the trust of visitors or customers. This in turn can have a positive effect on the visibility of your website in search engines.

If you need more information about SEO/search engine optimisation, we recommend that you hire an expert. Please note that as a hosting provider, we are unfortunately unable to answer any enquiries regarding SEO.