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by cr0sh 3439 days ago
> Hell, even shared hosting like Dreamhost which I use for a number of old projects I host for other people has built in LetsEncrypt functionality.

How do they do this? How do you set up an SSL cert on a shared host (aren't SSL certs tied to an IP)?

I have a site on a virtual host (via Hurricane Electric), and I don't want to move to another hosting provide (cloud hosting) if I can avoid it. But unless something has changed (which I admit, it may have - I am not up on all the latest web hosting tech), my understanding was that you can't have an SSL cert on a virtual host.
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joshstrange 3439 days ago
This is no longer the case: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/13990 You can have multiple sites on the same IP all have their own TLS cert.
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cr0sh 3439 days ago
After I posted I did some research and saw that, but thanks for posting the clarifying link.

I also found that my hosting provider (HE) does have something where on vhosts they have an SSL side - but as far as I can see they don't support (that is, by default or whatnot) Let's Encrypt certs.

However, digging deeper - there may be a way for me to set it up; I'd need to use a different LE client that doesn't need root access (there are a few), then I'd also have to set up a cron task to renew the cert every (< 90) days or so. Then update all of my pages, templates, code, etc to use https instead of http where applicable...a not insignificant amount of work, but doable.

I might still fire an email over the HE - maybe it's finally time for me to move away from them and over to Digital Ocean or something that supports LE certs out-of-the-box (I'd still have to fix the links on my site - but then again I've thought about just revamping my site again - it's due for it)...

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