What an SSL certificate proves, how long it takes, and what it does not do.
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A digital certificate issued for your domain by a Certificate Authority. You buy it, the authority then verifies that the domain — and, for Extended Validation, the organisation — is really yours, and only then is the certificate issued. The verification is the product; the file is what it leaves behind.
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It encrypts everything travelling between your visitor’s browser and your site, and it proves the site is yours. That matters most where people log in or type card details — and browsers now mark a site without one as "Not secure" before anybody reads a word of it.
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A sum the certificate authority undertakes to pay a visitor who is harmed because the authority mis-issued the certificate. It protects the person trusting your site rather than you, which is why the figure rises with the level of checking — and it is the only thing separating Standard from Premium. It is stated in US dollars by the authority, and is not part of what you pay us.
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Yes. These certificates are issued by a recognised Certificate Authority and are compatible with all major browsers. Your visitors install nothing and approve nothing.
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No — upgrades and downgrades are not supported. If you need a different certificate you buy the new one and install it on the same server alongside the old one. This is exactly why the section above exists: it is cheaper to choose correctly than to change your mind.
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Installing a certificate is not difficult, but it is a series of steps and each of them can fail quietly — a missing intermediate chain is the classic one, because it works in your browser and not in somebody else’s. Ask and we will do it.
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The certificates on this page are issued for a twelve-month term, and the price on each card is the price for that year. The renewal price is on the card too.
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A Certificate Signing Request is a small file generated on the server the certificate will live on. It carries the public half of a key pair while the private half never leaves the server — which is what makes the certificate meaningful. We can generate it with you.
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Every certificate here comes with a thirty-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
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