SSL Services - Keep Your Website Secure

Secure Connections For Your Visitors

Improve your website’s security with an SSL certificate.

It is essential for every business to protect its customers by implementing necessary security measures. We want you to have the best options available in terms of your website's security, so we offer SSL certificates as an add on service.

Secure your website with a Secure Sockets Layer certificate from Hostwinds. In addition to providing your website with more robust security, SSL certificates improve your website’s SEO. Search engines rank websites with an SSL higher than those without. This alone makes an SSL certificate a genuinely invaluable add on service.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an SSL Certificate?

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates are used to encrypt data sent from your website’s visitors to your website. This layer of protection uses https:// rather than http:// and builds trust among your website visitors, shows your website as secure when being visited and is ranked higher in search engine results. This helps any data sent from your website visitors web browser to the server remains private and is an important security feature for your website.

What SSL Certificates does Hostwinds offer?

Hostwinds enables AutoSSL for free on any Shared, Business, Reseller and White Label web hosting accounts. We also provide RapidSSL certificates through GeoTrust and WildCard SSL that are also supplied by GeoTrust for an additional cost.

Why is it important to have an SSL certificate?

SSL Certificates are essential to protect sensitive information that is sent through from your website’s visitors web browser to your site and to keep the data private through encryption. Most web browsers will check if the SSL that is installed is trusted or show a warning to alert your visitors that your website is protecting sensitive data that is sent through your site. Using an SSL certificate builds trust for your website’s visitors, knowing that their data is secure and encrypted while visiting your site. With the number of phishing sites and identify thefts on the internet, it is vital to show your visitors they are visiting a trusted site and that you are using https and an SSL certificate to keep their data protected.

Will you install my SSL certificate for my website?

Yes, we are more than happy to help you install your SSL certificate for your website. This is done for you automatically through AutoSSL and any SSL Certificates orders you place with Hostwinds, we are happy to help you create the CSR, and install the SSL Certificate once it has been confirmed and received. We are also able to install an SSL from a third party provider for a $10 fee if you need help installing an SSL that you have already created using your private key, generated a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for and have the Signed Certificate (CRT) file ready to be installed.

I have several subdomains, will these pages be secured as well?

cPanel (powered by Sectigo) AutoSSL feature can cover 1,000 domains per certificate and is installed free of charge for any Shared, Business, Reseller or White Label web hosting account. This can also be enabled for any Cloud VPS or Dedicated Server using a cPanel license. Hostwinds also provides WildCard RapidSSL certificates that you can purchase that will cover unlimited subdomains. Hostwinds SSL certificates cover one domain and are issued within minutes once placing the order and configuring your SSL certificate, confirming the request, and downloading the zip file that is sent to your email.

SSL Certificates

Establish Credibility and Trust by Providing Privacy and Security on your Websites.