SSL & HTTPS
Every plan ships with SSL at no cost, and you can upgrade later
Each site we host receives a complimentary, self-renewing SSL certificate, with paid OV and EV upgrades on standby for the moment you want to verify your business identity in full.
$0
Cost for baseline SSL
Auto
Setup and renewal
256-bit
Encryption depth
$1.5M
EV certificate warranty
Why This Matters
The padlock, the encryption, the trust: all handled
An SSL certificate isn't just a checkbox exercise — it shields your visitors' data and tells them your site is safe to use.
A padlock your visitors recognize
Run HTTPS and the browser bar shows that padlock everyone recognises. Leave it off and your visitors get a 'Not secure' warning in its place.
Your data, scrambled in transit
Logins, form submissions and payments are scrambled on the way between a visitor's browser and our servers, so anyone tapping the connection in the middle reads nothing but noise.
Renewal, handled for you
Long before the expiry date lands, the certificate reissues itself in the background. No dead padlock, no checkout that starts throwing errors.
A small edge in search rankings
Search engines lean towards secure pages, so an HTTPS version can rank above an identical page that never bothered with encryption.
Proof it's really you
Vetting sits behind an EV certificate: your business identity gets checked, and the verified company name is written into the certificate itself. That is worth having when someone is typing card details into your checkout.
Live before you know it
Point the domain's DNS at us and the free certificate goes on by itself from that moment. Nothing to buy, and nothing to configure.
Included At No Cost
SSL at no charge on everything, no small print
Shared, WordPress, reseller, VPS, dedicated: every hosting plan on our price list carries an SSL certificate that costs you nothing extra. Installation happens on its own, cover reaches your domain and each subdomain beneath it, and renewal never asks you for anything. The padlock stays where it is, year after year, without a reminder landing in your inbox.
- Applied automatically across your domain and subdomains
- Issued as soon as your domain points our way
- Renewed on your behalf ahead of every expiry
- No bait-and-switch first-year pricing
Certificate Upgrades
Step up to a wildcard or EV certificate
Where the free tier runs out of road, a paid certificate takes over the job. One wildcard certificate nails down every subdomain you have under a single cert, while an EV certificate writes your verified business name directly into the certificate details. That reassurance earns its keep on online stores, on membership sites, and anywhere at all that sensitive information is being handled.
- Domain-validated (DV) certificate options
- Wildcard protection across every subdomain
- Extended Validation (EV) for the highest trust level
- Coverage backed by warranty up to $1.5 million
Add a Certificate
For most sites, buying one is a waste
The free certificate on your plan is the same strong encryption a paid one uses, and it renews itself. There are exactly two reasons to pay.
A free certificate that renews on its own comes with every plan, handing visitors the padlock and modern TLS encryption. For an ordinary website or a shop, that really is the lot. We would rather tell you as much than sell you something with no benefit whatsoever in it for you.
Two jobs sit outside what a free certificate will do. Unlimited subdomains under one single certificate is the first of them, and that needs Wildcard. The second is putting your verified company identity inside the certificate itself, with a warranty sitting behind it as well, and that needs Extended Validation, which counts for something mainly if you take payments or run logins and you want the strongest trust signal available.
After a warranty-backed certificate for a single domain, with no wildcard coverage attached? One can still be issued on request. Ask us, and you will get a straight answer on whether it does anything at all for you.
Wildcard SSL Certificate
One certificate that covers a domain and every subdomain
$169.99/yr
renews at the same price · covers every subdomain
- Validation
- Domain (DV)
- Issued
- Usually same day
- Warranty
- $10,000
- Secures
- *.yourdomain
- A single certificate protects every subdomain
- Wildcard coverage for *.yourdomain
- Padlock and HTTPS across all your subdomains
- Backed by a $10,000 relying-party warranty
- A great fit for apps with lots of subdomains
- Our support team will help you install it free
- Issued the same day in most cases
- 256-bit encryption with a 2048-bit key
- Unlimited server licences
- Reissue it as often as you need
Checkout finishes on Hosting Cheap, the secure platform we bill through.
EV SSL Certificate
The highest level of trust, with your business identity verified
$379.99/yr
renews at the same price · highest assurance
- Validation
- Extended (EV)
- Issued
- 1–3 days
- Warranty
- $1,500,000
- Secures
- 1 domain
- Extended Validation confirms your business is real
- Your verified company name appears in the certificate
- The strongest trust indicator you can offer visitors
- Backed by a $1,500,000 relying-party warranty
- Gives visitors confidence at checkout and login
- Our team walks you through the validation process
- 256-bit encryption with a 2048-bit key
- Trusted by every major browser
- Reissue it as often as you need
- A site seal for your footer
Checkout finishes on Hosting Cheap, the secure platform we bill through.
After checkout, validation and installation are both ours to sort out, not yours. Wildcard usually lands within a day; EV takes a few days, because verifying your company is part of what an EV certificate involves.
The Process
Encrypted from day one, with no setup on you
- 1
Aim your domain our way
Add the domain to your account, then aim its DNS records at our servers. That is the only step you do by hand.
- 2
Issuance happens on its own
Once the domain passes its check, we go and request the free certificate and put it in place for you. No button to press, no file to edit.
- 3
Security that runs itself afterward
Renewal happens on schedule, ahead of the expiry date, which keeps HTTPS running and the padlock showing without you lifting a finger.
What You Get
Everything bundled with your certificate
- Free certificate with every plan
- Issued and installed without manual steps
- Protection for your domain plus its subdomains
- Renewal that happens automatically
- Option to force HTTPS redirects
- Encryption via current TLS 1.3
- Upgrade paths: DV, wildcard and EV
- Recognized across every major browser
- Certificate pricing with no hidden costs
- Real people on support, 24/7
Common Questions
Questions about SSL certificates
Is SSL genuinely included at no cost on every plan?
Yes. An SSL certificate comes with every hosting plan and adds nothing at all to the bill. We issue it and keep it current for you, for the whole time your site stays hosted with us.
What do I get from a paid certificate that free lacks?
Encryption and the padlock in the address bar: that is the entire remit of the free one, and it does that job well. Paid certificates build on top of that. A wildcard certificate puts every subdomain you own under one certificate, and an EV certificate adds a vetted review of who is behind the business, which browsers and shoppers both read as a stronger signal of trust.
Will people visiting the site actually see that padlock?
With the certificate live, browsers draw the padlock and load your pages over HTTPS. A site running without a valid one gets something else entirely: a 'Not secure' notice sitting in the address bar for everyone to read.
Will I need to renew the certificate myself?
No. Renewal on the free ones happens by itself, well before the expiry date rolls round. On paid wildcard and EV certificates, a reminder goes out to you ahead of the validation window, so cover never drops.
Will adding SSL make my site slower?
Nothing you would ever spot on a stopwatch. Modern TLS is tuned hard, and HTTPS is the entry requirement for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, protocols that usually leave a site quicker than it was rather than slower.
Will one certificate cover every subdomain I have set up?
Yes. The free certificate already stretches across your main domain and the subdomains hanging off it, and if you are juggling a lot of them, a wildcard certificate can be bought as well.
Earn your visitors' confidence.
Every plan includes free, self-renewing SSL, plus premium EV or OV certificates ready whenever you need to prove your business identity.
Browse Hosting PlansGreat SSL certificates is mostly invisible: pages load, mail arrives, renewals don't sting. That's the experience we engineer for — NVMe drives, tuned caching and human support that replies in minutes, not days.
Designed with site owners securing visitor traffic in mind, plans include free SSL certificates, free site moves, automated daily backups and support from real engineers 24/7 — all standard, never extra.
The HostingAlly approach to ssl certificates
Speed is engineered in, not bolted on. Every certificate runs on 100% NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed servers with HTTP/2, so time-to-first-byte stays low and Core Web Vitals stay green — the things search engines and visitors both reward.
Reliability is contractual, not aspirational: a 99.9% uptime SLA backed by redundant tier-3 data centers, automatic failover and monitoring that pages an engineer before you ever notice a blip.
Honest pricing, upfront
The classic hosting trick is a teaser first year followed by a renewal cliff. We don't play it: the price you sign up at is the price your certificate renews at, and any promotional pricing is labelled as exactly that before you pay.
Every plan is also covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee, so trying SSL certificates with us carries no real risk — if it's not the right fit, you get your money back without a retention-department wrestling match.
Infrastructure that takes ssl certificates seriously
Your certificate lives in a tier-3 data center on enterprise hardware we own and maintain — NVMe storage arrays, redundant networking and conditioned power, watched 24/7 from our network operations desk.
Software stays current on our schedule, not yours: kernel patches, panel updates and PHP releases are rolled out across the fleet so security never depends on you remembering to update.
- 100% NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed web servers
- Network-edge DDoS filtering on every plan
- Proactive patching handled by our engineers
- Round-the-clock monitoring from our network desk
More Reasons
Built to help you grow
Quick out of the box
Speed is the default: NVMe arrays plus server-side caching mean your certificate loads fast from day one.
Free SSL, forever
Certificates are issued and renewed automatically on every domain, at no cost.
Free migration
Switching hosts? Engineers transfer your certificate at no charge, typically inside a day.
Daily backups
Daily snapshots run automatically, so a bad update costs minutes, not data.
Human support 24/7
Real engineers on chat and tickets with typical replies in under 15 minutes.
Renewal-safe pricing
The renewal price is the sign-up price; promotional pricing is always labelled before checkout.
Getting Started
How to get going
- 1
Pick your plan
Choose the ssl certificates tier that fits today — upgrading later takes one click, not a migration.
- 2
Connect your domain
Register a new domain from $2.99 or point one you already own; SSL configures itself.
- 3
Launch and relax
Go live in minutes, or let us move an existing site over for free while you watch.
Good To Know
What's covered
- 30-day money-back guarantee on hosting plans
- Built for site owners securing visitor traffic
- Network-edge DDoS filtering built in
- Free WHOIS privacy on eligible domains
- One-click installs for 240+ applications
- Instant account provisioning after checkout
- Upgrade any time without migrating
- UK-registered company, prices shown in USD
More FAQ
More questions, answered
How quickly can my certificate go live?
Accounts are provisioned within minutes of checkout. If you're moving an existing certificate, our free migration team typically completes the transfer inside 24 hours with no downtime.
Is SSL included with SSL certificates?
No. HTTPS ships free on every domain — the certificate installs itself and keeps renewing without you touching anything.
What happens at renewal time?
No renewal cliff: the price you join at is the price you renew at. Where a first-term promo applies, the renewal figure is printed right next to it before checkout.
What if SSL certificates isn't the right fit?
Licences and issued certificates activate immediately, so refunds are handled case-by-case — contact support within 7 days and we'll work it out. Hosting plans bought alongside them keep their full 30-day money-back guarantee.