How to activate Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for Your Website

Website security is of the utmost importance. Furthermore, you cannot skip installing an SSL certificate on your website—it is a need. It encrypts critical data, such as login passwords and personal information, that is sent to and from your website.

There is a Let’s Encrypt certificate authority that provides free certificates for TLS (i.e., Transport Layer Security) encryption. This SSL certificate is free to any web user who wants to launch the website with the https protocol for additional security. 

There is no cost for getting an SSL certificate issued and the installation process is completely transparent and easy with full security guarantee.

The present SSL installation method is so complicated that each entry must be manually created, validation must be performed, the page must be signed into, and certificates for the websites must be installed. However, if you take into account the Let us Encrypt SSL certificate, installation only requires a few clicks as you will see in the article’s subsequent sections.

Key Points for Choosing Let’s Encrypt For Your Website:

1) Free SSL:

Let’s Encrypt certificates are completely free, there is absolutely no cost or hidden charges.

2) Ease of installation:

The process of installation is so easy that you can install SSL within a few clicks.

3) No email validation:

You must validate buying authority and email validation as part of the current SSL installation process. However, the Let us Encrypt installation process is so simple that you can skip the mail-ID verification step.

4) Auto Renewal:

There is an option provided where you can set an SSL certificate for auto renewal. Now that we have seen about SSL certificates and its benefits, let’s understand the steps to install an SSL through cPanel. 

How to Install SSL Certificate to Your Website?

Here are the steps to install SSL certificate to your website:

1. Login to your cPanel account with the username and password.

2. Scroll down to the Security section, then click on Let’s Encrypt SSL. 

3. Select the domain name for which you want to install the SSL, a new key and SSL certificate will be generated for it. After you click on the Issue button, the key would be added to the SSL/TLS manager. 

4. After selecting the domain, click on the issue button where you ask Certificate Authority to purchase an SSL certificate.
Note: If the document root and install mail SMTPS/POP3S/IMAPS SSL certificate are already selected, you must untick them.

 

5. That’s it! This way, you have successfully generated a  Free SSL certificate for your website. 

If you find the process difficult, contact our support team to install the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on all your websites for FREE.

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