{"id":1328,"date":"2020-09-18T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:09:16","slug":"new-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-free-ssl-but-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/new-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-free-ssl-but-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"New Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL Certificates \u2013 Free SSL But Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We offer Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL certificates for a few years now so that together we make the internet more secure.&nbsp;By removing the barrier that SSL certificates cost money, and by easily installing them by pressing a button in the control panel, there is virtually no reason not to use SSL anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is good to know that every SSL certificate that is generated is included in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.certificate-transparency.org\/\">public index<\/a>, which means that hackers are aware of your (new) domain within 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is this important?&nbsp;<\/strong>If you are installing WordPress just at that time and hackers can detect it, they can complete your installation in one second at a time, install a backdoor and reset the installation, so that you are not aware of anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we recommend: use an SSL certificate but install WordPress immediately and not after half an hour.&nbsp;If you want to be completely sure, you first install WordPress and then the SSL certificate later, but then you have a little extra work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ac.managedomain.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Install now via the control panel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL certificates for a few years now so that together we make the internet more secure.&nbsp;By removing the barrier that SSL certificates cost money, and by easily installing them by pressing a button in the control panel, there is virtually no reason not to use SSL anymore. It is good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hosting-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}