SSL Certificates
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Choose the SSL Solution for Your Needs
A Simply & Easy Solution
$4.17/mo*
- Validation Type: DV
- Issuance: 10 Minutes
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $10,000
- Site Seal: Static
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
Quickly Secure Your Website
$6.67/mo*
- Validation Type: DV
- Issuance: Minutes
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $500,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
Boost Encryption & Trust
$14.92/mo*
- Validation Type: OV
- Issuance: 1-2 days
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,250,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
*The promotional price shows the term with the best pricing and changes depending on plan. View all plans to see additional term options. The plan will renew at the regular rate the end of the introductory term.
Boost Encryption & Trust
$14.92/mo*
- Validation Type: OV
- Issuance: 1-2 days
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,250,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
Powerful OV Encryption
$16.58/mo*
- Validation Type: OV
- Issuance:Instant
- Reissue:Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,000,000
- Site Seal: Secure Trust Seal
- Server Licensing:Unlimited
The Industry Leading SSL
$29.92/mo*
- Validation Type: OV
- Issuance:Instant
- Reissue:Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,750,000
- Site Seal: Smart Site Seal
- Server Licensing:Unlimited
Comprehensive Website Security
$77.42/mo*
- Validation Type: OV
- Issuance:1 Day
- Reissue:Unlimited
- Warranty: $2,000,000
- Site Seal: Smart Site Seal
- Server Licensing:Unlimited
*The promotional price shows the term with the best pricing and changes depending on plan. View all plans to see additional term options. The plan will renew at the regular rate the end of the introductory term.
EV On a Limited Budget
$22.42/mo*
- Validation Type: EV
- Issuance: 1-10 days
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,500,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
Advanced Website Security
$26.58/mo*
- Validation Type: EV
- Issuance: 1-5 days
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,750,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
Advanced Website Security
$77.42/mo*
- Validation Type: EV
- Issuance: Minutes
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,750,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
The most powerful SSL
$108.25/mo*
- Validation Type: EV
- Issuance: 1 Day
- Reissue: Unlimited
- Warranty: $2,000,000
- Site Seal: Dynamic
- Server Licensing: Unlimited
*The promotional price shows the term with the best pricing and changes depending on plan. View all plans to see additional term options. The plan will renew at the regular rate the end of the introductory term.
Budget Friendly WC SSL
$12.50/mo*
- RapidSSL
- Domain Validation
- Static Site Seal
- 10-Minute Issuance
- Warranty: $10,000
- Subdomain Protection
Affordable Validated WC SSL
$35.92/mo*
- GeoTrust SSL
- Domain Validation
- Dynamic Site Seal
- Instant Issuance
- Warranty: $500,000
- Subdomain Protection
Unlimited Sub Domain Support
$58.25/mo*
- Validation Type:OV
- Issuance:1-2 days
- Reissue:Unlimited
- Warranty: $1,250,000
- Site Seal:Dynamic
- Server Licensing:Unlimited
*The promotional price shows the term with the best pricing and changes depending on plan. View all plans to see additional term options. The plan will renew at the regular rate the end of the introductory term.
Which SSL Certificate Is Right For You?
Basic SSL (DV)
Ideal For...
- Sites requiring basic security
- Internal or Non-Public facing sites
- Web-based applications that don't have a fraud risk
- Sites where credibility matters less than data security
Premium SSL (OV)
Ideal For...
- Public-facing sited limited to less-sensitive transactions
- Searchable information sites
- Government and educational sites
Advanced SSL (EV)
Ideal For...
- Sites that require login, accept payments, or handle private information or other sensitive data such as eCommerce, banking, and healthcare sites.
- Sites that want to reassure their visitors with a visual indicator in the address bar
Enterprise SSL (EV)
Ideal For...
- Same use-cases as the Advance SSL (EV)
- Organizations demanding the highest level security available such as Quantum-proof encryption
- Organizations desiring a certificate management platform solution
Complete List of Available SSL Certificates
Product |
1 Year Price | 2 Year Price | 3 Year Price | |||
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| RapidSSL | $49.99 | $99.98 | $149.97 | Buy Now | ||
| QuickSSL Premium | $79.99 | $159.89 | $239.97 | Buy Now | ||
| RapidSSL Wildcard | $149.95 | $299.90 | $449.85 | Buy Now | ||
| True BusinessID | $179.00 | $358.00 | $537.00 | Buy Now | ||
| DigiCert STD SSL | $199.00 | $398.00 | $597.00 | Buy Now | ||
| True BusinessID EV | $269.00 | $538.00 | $807.00 | Buy Now | ||
| Extended Validation SSL | $319.00 | $638.00 | $957.00 | Buy Now | ||
| Secure Site® SSL | $359.00 | $718.00 | $1077.00 | Buy Now | ||
| QuickSSL Wildcard | $431.00 | $862.00 | $1293.00 | Buy Now | ||
| Secure Site® EV | $929.00 | $1858.00 | $2787.00 | Buy Now | ||
| Secure Site® Pro SSL | $929.00 | $1858.00 | $2787.00 | Buy Now | ||
| True BusinessID WC | $699.00 | $1398.00 | $2097.00 | Buy Now | ||
| Secure Site® Pro EV | $1299.00 | $2598.00 | $3897.00 | Buy Now |
SSL Certificate Providers from A2 Hosting
Not only does A2 Hosting offer a wide variety of SSL Certificate options, but also from a variety of SSL Certificate providers. Here are the vendors currently available from A2 Hosting.
RapidSSL is a faster, more affordable TLS/SSL option. With a fully automated validation process, you get your certificate issued in minutes, not hours. With RapidSSL, you'll be getting a low cost certificate from a highly respected certificate authority. In fact, we’re powered by DigiCert’s modern infrastructure and no other Certificate Authority invests in their ecosystem as much as DigiCert so you can expect great performance.
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With more than 100,000 customers in over 150 countries, there’s a good reason businesses around the world trust GeoTrust for SSL/TLS security solutions. GeoTrust delivers SSL/TLS security solutions to companies of all sizes at a great value. Its wide range of digital certificates allow companies to cost effectively maximize security while also aligning themselves with a highly trusted web security brand powered by the industry’s most trusted roots.
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DigiCert is the world’s leading provider of scalable TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions for identity and encryption. As the industry’s most trusted and widely respected provider of high assurance certificates, DigiCert secures billions of transactions, worth billions of dollars, every day. The most innovative companies, including 89% of the Fortune 500 and 97 of the 100 top global banks, choose DigiCert for web servers and IoT solutions.
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Multi Year Plans Explained
The web ecosystem is always improving and becoming safer. To minimize vulnerabilities, one such update occurred on September 1, 2020, in which SSL certificates can now only be valid for one year max (398 days). What does is mean for you? Well, if you're accustomed to reissuing certificates every two years, then now you'll need to reissue them every year.
Thankfully, the Certificate Authorities have introduced Multi year Plans, which allows you to purchase SSL coverage for up to three years. While a certificate still needs to be issued yearly, the Multi year Plans will provide you with discounts and help you save time from needing to purchase a new certificate every year. All our SSL products come with multiple year SSL coverage of up to three years.
SSL Certificate Providers from A2 Hosting
Not only does A2 Hosting offer a wide variety of SSL Certificate options, but also from a variety of SSL Certificate providers. Here are the vendors currently available from A2 Hosting.
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SSL Certificate FAQs
Have questions about SSL Certificates? We have your answers below!For just about any site, you probably need an SSL Certificate. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) provides safe communication via the internet. SSL Certificates protect sensitive information with encryption techniques when transmitting information between a web server and a web browser. Millions of websites use SSL Certificates on their site to keep their customers’ and their visitors’ information safe. Your visitors will notice that your site is protected by an SSL Certificate because your website URL will begin with HTTPS as opposed to HTTP. Additional signals of a site being secured by HTTPs is the padlock in the browser bar and a green extended validation bar found in more advanced SSL Certificate options. Some SSL Certificates also offer you a secure site seal for you to publish to signify to your visitors that your website is safe and their information is safe from potential attackers.
An SSL Certificate is installed on a web server to authenticate your website’s identity. This means that the website is what it claims to be. In other words, it proves your identity to your visitors so they can be sure they are seeing your site, and not a fake or bogus website.
The other key function of an SSL Certificate is that it encrypts the data that is transmitted between the server containing the site and your visitors. This prevents data being sent between your website and your visitors from being read by anyone else.
Absolutely! In Google Chrome, if your site is not protected by an SSL Certificate, your visitors will get a warning message that your site is “Not Secure”.
SSL certificates are strongly recommended if you have a website that receives or transmit any sensitive information like credit card numbers, license numbers, social security numbers etc. They are also strongly recommended for any pages where a password is submitted. While SSL Certificates especially important in these instances, it has become more evident recently that all sites should actually be SSL protected. That’s because many browsers have started to flag sites that are not using the SSL/HTTPS protocol for being unsafe. Protecting your site with an SSL Certificate can prevent you from having this distinction.
Additionally, buying an SSL Certificate for your site is one the easiest and fastest ways you can boost your SEO rankings. That’s because part of Google’s algorithm is whether your website can be considered trustworthy or not. In short, having an SSL Certificate for your site is the new standard as they provide a secure connection from your site’s server to your visitors’ browsers.
When your website’s audience visits your site, their browser checks for and views your SSL Certificate. Your visitors’ computer confirms your site’s identity through your SSL’s Certificate Authority, the organization that issed the digital certificate.
If everything checks out OK, your visitors’ computer and the server your website is hosted on perform a digital “handshake”. This is when the computer and your server determine what sort of encryption will be used to create a secure connection. This is known as the Secure Socket Layer, or SSL. The flow of data between the computers is encrypted, meaning it is jumbled up into a code to prevent unauthorized viewing. Your visitors’ browser will display some sort of identifer, usually a padlock, indicating to your visitor that a secure connection with your website has been made.
SSL Certificates are granted from a Certificate Authority (CA). The Certificate Authority’s job is to verify that the website owner is in fact who they say they are. A business verification may also occur if the site is owned by a business, most likely an eCommerce store. A copy of the SSL Certificate is received once the CA verifies the site owner. The web site owner is then free to install their SSL Certificate on their server for their website.
Once the web server that is hosting your site is accessed by your visitor’s browser, an “SSL handshake” takes place. This means the browser and the server have established a key informing each other that it’s safe to communicate and the SSL Certificate is in fact valid. Most importantly, your visitors will also know that any information they are transmitting to you, whether it be a password, credit card or social security number, is secure due to your use of the SSL Certificate.
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An SSL Certificate allows your site to move from HTTP to the safer Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). The use of HTTPS helps protect your visitors’ connections made to your site and avoid what is known as “man-in the-middle” attacks. This type of attack, where sensitive communication/information is intercepted and de-crypted, can be protected against with the use of an SSL Certificate.
You should have one SSL certificate to protect each of your websites. With that being said, if your site has multiple subdomains (i.e domain1.a2hosting.com, domain2.a2hosting.com etc.), you should consider a Wildcard SSL. That’s because a single Wildcard SSL Certificate can protect unlimited subdomains.
Single Site SSL Certificate
While our free SSL Certificates work great and are just as secure as other SSL Certificate options, there are a number of advantages in choosing one of our Single Site SSL Certificate options. These advantages include:
- Warranties – Our SSL Single Site Certificate options offer a warranty, as opposed to a free SSL Certiricate which does not.
- Domain Verification – Your visitors may appreciate knowing that your domain has been verified and you could ultimately see a bump in your conversion rate because of it.
- Site Seals – Offers a site seal for you to display on your site signifying that your site is secured via SSL.
- Easy Setup – Yes, our free SSL is a zero-configuration option. However, we also offer Single Site SSL Certificate options that offer an easy setup.
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Wildcard SSL Certificates
Looking to secure a number of subdomains but concerned about having to buy an SSL Certificate for each one? Our Wildcard SSL Certificates offer the perfect solution! Protect an unlimited number of subdomains with this subdomain option. Get Wildcard SSL
Advanced SSL Certificates
Our Advanced SSL Certificates offer the most secure options for eCommerce sites:
- Organization Authentication – Gives your visitors the ability to read more information about your organization simply by clicking the SSL bar in their browser.
- Extended Validation – Provides the highest level of trust by turning the browser address bar green when visiting your site. Get Advanced SSL
It may sound too good to be true, but A2 Hosting offers you a free SSL Certificatesfor your domain. When you choose A2 Hosting, your free SSL Certificate is added to your domain automatically. Best of all, our free SSLs are just as secure as paid SSL alternatives. Get a Free SSL Certificate
You’re most likely looking for our free SSL Certificate if you’re looking for free SSL Hosting. However we do also offer a free Shared SSL Certificate on our Web Hosting plans. Our Shared SSL certificates provide you with a way to encrypt a connection that is not seen by the public. Best of all, you don’t worry about the SSL Certificate cost . Our Shared SSL Certificates will list a domain owned by A2 Hosting in place of a domain that you own. The URL format when using one of these SSLs will look similar to yourusername.wwwsr1.supercp.com.
Are you an A2 Hosting Shared Hosting customer that would like to use a free SSL Certificate? Just submit a support ticket on the My A2 Hosting Customer Portalto request access.