What is SSL Certificate Expiry? Think of an SSL certificate as a travel pass for encrypted website data. Every SSL certificate has a fixed validity when it is issued by a Certifying Authority (CA). At the end of the validity period is an expiry date. This expiry date is hard-coded into the certificate. It is […]
A revoked SSL certificate, just like an expired certificate, is the death certificate for a website. When a web browser shows an error that the website is using a revoked certificate, nobody will visit the website. About SSL Certificate Revocation SSL certificate revocation is the act of declaring that the SSL certificate that has been […]
Why Download the SSL Certificate of a Website? The content of a SSL certificate is publicly available to web browsers so that they can determine the trust-level of a website to enable https access. Besides this reason there can be many other legitimate reasons to download the publicly-available SSL certificate of a website. For example, […]
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WordPress is arguably the world’s favorite content management system that runs everything from websites to blogs to e-commerce stores on the Internet. We also know that enabling https for a website acts as a positive ranking signal for Google search results and also gives other benefits to website owners. It, therefore, follows that WordPress blogs and business […]
Google SEO and Switching to HTTPSWe all know that switching to https results in a positive jump in Google SEO or search engine ranking. Google said as much way back in Aug 2014.According to Search Engine Land, Google said that based on their initial tests the HTTPS signal showed “positive results” in terms of relevancy and ranking in […]
You may have heard that Cloudflare provides a free SSL Certificates for websites that use their CDN (Content Delivery Network) service.Before you decide to use Cloudflare CDN as a source of free SSL certificates here is what you should know about using their service.Cloudflare CDN is a technical service requiring correct configurationCloudflare CDN SSL certificates […]
“I deleted SSL certificates for my website by mistake!” We have heard this so many times from our website customers in countless customer support tickets. Most website owners are not aware of what to do in this situation. They have lost their website’s SSL certificate files and have no backups of these files anywhere. In […]
The PositiveSSL domain validated (DV) certificates issued by Sectigo CA (previously Comodo CA) has always been our top-selling SSL certificate. Many of our web developer and agency customers regularly purchase these certificates with one-year validity from getSSL as a value-addition for their client’s website and app projects. So we decided to develop and offer a special […]
Google requested adoption of a resolution to reduce the maximum validity of SSL certificates to ONE year in a vote held by the CA/Browser (CA/B) forum late last year. The vote went against this resolution. On Feb 19th 2020, Apple announced that their Safari browser will limit certificate validity of all SSL certificates to 398 […]
