Free resources, For website owners
Let's Encrypt
Free SSL certificates that renew themselves automatically.
- Category
- For website owners
- Cost
- Free, unlimited certificates
- Website
- letsencrypt.org
What Let's Encrypt is
Let’s Encrypt is the reason HTTPS stopped being a line item. Certificates are issued automatically, cost nothing, and are trusted by every browser.
The certificates are short-lived on purpose, which sounds like a burden and is the opposite: renewal is automated by the client on your server, so a certificate that expires is a sign the automation broke, not a task you forgot.
Good for
- HTTPS on any site, including staging and side projects
- Servers where you control the configuration and can run a renewal client
- Replacing a paid certificate that offers nothing extra for a normal site
Worth knowing
- Renewal has to be automated — monitor it, because a failed renewal takes the site down in every browser.
- It validates the domain, not the organisation; if you specifically need an organisation-validated certificate, this is not it.
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