5 Free SSL Service Providers For Your Website

Google has announced a change that every website owner should switch their website from HTTP to HTTPS for creating a more secure form of web browsing as mandatory. 

HTTP (HyperText Markup Language) is the modification of HTTPS, which means your connection is encrypted, and your information is protected from being read in plain text.

HTTPS ensures the security and privacy of information exchanged on the internet. Sometimes you have noticed that all the legitimate websites such as banks where personal information is entered and secured through encryption service.

Google also announced that adding an SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) certificate to your website provides a small ranking benefit. The main purpose of using SSL is to make the information unreadable for the others on that network except to whom you are sending the information.

Following, we are discussing free SSL service providers for your website.

1) Lets Encrypt

Lets Encrypt is a service provided by internet security research group (ISRG). It is a free service for anyone who owns a domain name.

Their certificates are standard domain validation certification that can be used on any server like a mail server, FTP server etc. Certificates are valid for 90 days and recommend automatic renewal of certificates after every 60 days.

2) Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a content delivery network which secure any website and decrease other attacks and threats. It is designed to increase the loading time of your site by acting as an intermediate between site servers and visitors.

It works on anycast network i.e the method in which incoming traffic can be routed to the multiple data center. This method can prevent the interruption to clients request from the origin server.

3) Zerossl

ZeroSSL provides free SSL certificate and free SSL tools for your website. The renewals are also free and unlimited. The certificates issued are supported by all browsers and operating system.

For issuance of a certificate, you only need to confirm your ownership of the domain name i.e the certificate is Domain Validated. The certificate is valid for 90 days and then renewed again without any cost.

4) SSL

SSL was founded in 2002 and has its headquarter in Houston, Texas. It is a globally trusted certificate authority which provides a wide range of digital certificates including SSL/TLS server certificates, code signing, document signing, and S/MIME email certificates. It is the best way to protect your online communication free.

5) SSLforFree

Sslforfree provides free SSL certificate and wildcard SSL certificate in minutes. It improves search engine ranking and prevents a website from being hacked. They create certificates by using the ACME server with the help of domain validation.

They generate a private key in your browser using web cryptography API and deleted off after the certificate is generated.