Here are the things you'll need to know and do BEFORE you get a SSL certificate for your website:
- Make sure your email address is listed in the 'Technical', 'Administrative', and "Registrant' fields for your domain at your domain registrar
- For private SSL certificates, make sure that you're familiar with DNS and Email validation.
- For Let's Encrypt certificates. Make sure DNS is pointed to our server BEFORE you try to request a certificate.
- Look in the Knowledge Base articles for step by step walkthroughs from beginning to install that fits your hosting package.
- If you're unfamiliar with the process of obtaining and installing a SSL certificate, you can subscribe to our Managed SSL Service.