{"id":197533,"date":"2017-02-06T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197533"},"modified":"2017-02-06T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:07:03","slug":"ssl-encryption-enabled-on-80-of-hetzner-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/197533-ssl-encryption-enabled-on-80-of-hetzner-domains.html","title":{"rendered":"SSL encryption enabled on 80% of Hetzner domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/191934-free-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-hetzner.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hetzner launched its free Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL domain validation certificates<\/strong><\/a> for web hosting clients in December 2016, and the campaign has been a success.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority that makes encrypted connections the default standard on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Encrypt has enabled Hetzner to automate the installation and renewal of SSL certificates, letting the company offer the service for free.<\/p>\n<p>Hetzner said the response from its customers was positive &#8211; Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL is now enabled for over 80% of the 330,000 domains it hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, domains with DNS hosted externally, such sites that make use of the Cloudflare service, were excluded. Now, these sites are also SSL enabled automatically,\u201d said Hetzner.<\/p>\n<p>Sites which have not been enabled typically have deviations on the standard setup, such as the VirtualHost configuration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers with large numbers of subdomains cannot have SSL enabled immediately for all subdomains due to Let\u2019s Encrypt\u2019s rate-limiting restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these customers, we\u2019re staggering the roll-out. Soon, they will have SSL enabled for all their sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hetzner has also started its automated certificate renewal for the first phase of Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL domains.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/191934-free-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-hetzner.html\">Free Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL certificates on Hetzner<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hetzner\u2019s Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL campaign has been successful, with over 80% of the 330,000 domains hosted with the company now SSL enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1065,41127,5104,41129],"class_list":["post-197533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-hetzner","tag-lets-encrypt-ssl","tag-ssl","tag-virtualhost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197537,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197533\/revisions\/197537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}