At WP Engine, we’re committed to protecting our customers’ online business, while delivering secure and blazingly fast sites. That’s why we are happy to announce that WP Engine has made Let’s Encrypt certificates available to its 50K customers.
Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority who is making HTTPS ubiquitous by providing free SSL/TLS certificates. In addition to being free, Let’s Encrypt certificates are fully automated, so after you configure your site’s certificates, we’ll auto-renew them before they expire (every 90 days).
Websites starting with https use encrypted connections and have padlock icons on browsers.
A More Secure Site
HTTPS, the secure protocol for the web, safeguards your visitors by creating encrypted connections between your visitors and your site, protecting your visitors’ privacy and the data they share with you over the internet.
Blazing Fast Results
On our platform, HTTPS also automatically enables HTTP/2 (the latest hypertext transfer protocol), which improves website load times.
Improved SEO
By enabling HTTPS with free Let’s Encrypt certificates, you can also expect better Google search engine rankings, since HTTPS is used as a ranking signal.
Get Started Today
To get free Let’s Encrypt certificates for your sites, visit the WP Engine User Portal, and then visit your install > SSL > Add Certificates > Get Let’s Encrypt. For more details, visit our Support Garage article about HTTPS.
For more information about Let’s Encrypt, see Torque’s Why Let’s Encrypt Has Completely Changed the SSL Landscape.
This is great… except that since the service includes CDN, we’d have to pick between this free SSL or CDN, unless we’re willing to to go for a wildcard certificate, anyway. I suppose it’s meaningful for people who’d rather have SSL than CDN, but how many will actually take advantage of it? Any chance this could be extended to cover the CDN?
+1 on including custom CDN zones here too.
You can add the CDN domain to get the SSL cert, but apparently the process is currently manual to add to the CDN – and WP Engine won’t support it because it’s a 3 month recurring process (so says the support tech I spoke to).
The CDN’s API allows pushing of certs to them, so manual addition is not necessary and this is hopefully just a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ it’ll be supported… be good to get clarification though.
Let’s Encrypt support wildcard certificates now.
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579.
Hopefully WP Engine will already be on the case for supporting this…
WP Engine + Let’s Encrypt = As good as it gets.
Thank you for offering this feature!
Wohoo! way to go! You finally caught up with WPXHosting.com.. it only took you a year.
Thanks for providing this feature. This is great!
What’s the catch?
How can this be legit?
Just curious…