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by brongondwana 3053 days ago
Not routinely, it was done once as part of the plan to support SSL for all websites, and when we hit some limits with letsencrypt, we shelved the plan for a bit. There are currently 4 unsolved issues, which the team are looking in to.

We still need to find a way to provide automatic SSL for customer domains though - because we allow our customers to create arbitrary websites inside either their domains or their personal subdomain on our domains (username.fastmail.com).

The alternative of NOT doing something with SSL certificates is having insecure websites for customers by default, which will be more and more punished (and rightfully so) by browser interfaces. Setting up SSL for the domains which are hosted with us is the right thing to do.