free wildcard certs now that zerossl isnt free

[🔥Iggy🔥]

hello,
ive just noticed these changes with zerossl after a recent cert expired on me...

-only allowed 3 free 90 day certs now
-no free wildcards allowed
-must make acct to issue cert


seems the company has been bought out by a more profit motivated one.....now im wondering where to get free wildcard certs...

how do you all generate your wildcard certs?

thank you

 

[Paul B]

Can't you use Let's Encrypt?

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our nonprofit work this year in our 2023 Annual Report.

letsencrypt.org

 

[🔥Iggy🔥]

Can't you use Let's Encrrypt?

Let's Encrypt

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our nonprofit work this year in our 2023 Annual Report.

letsencrypt.org

i didnt try yet....their step 1 is to install certbot software to the server...which im looking into, but curious all what options there are atm...

also btw, we use arch linux so no automated panel options...

 

[Paul B]

I personally haven't gone through the process of creating a certificate with them but they do seem to be quite popular and have issued a massive amount of certificates to some very well known sites.

 

[Chris D]

We actually use Let's Encrypt on the XF.com demo:



A wildcard certificate for a potentially infinite number of subdomains 100% free. Not bad. The SSL certificates aren't valid for more than 4 months at a time (at least that's true of our wildcard ones) but they automatically renew via certbot. There's quite a bit of setup involved but there's plenty of help and various guides online to help. Worth persevering with.

 

[Sim]

Let's Encrypt has pretty much become the standard across the industry now. I've been using it for years on my servers - all of my public facing websites use LE certs.

There's plenty of documentation out there for how to use it on various platforms.