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Wildcard SSL Certificates: What They Are & How They Work

20.2.2024

Wildcard SSL Certificates: What They Are & How They Work
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This year, over one million SSL certificates have been issued every day. This trend reflects the growing preference by consumers and search engines for sites that encrypt and secure the communication between their site and a visitors browser

To keep your site and your visitors’ information safe, you can choose a hosting platform like CMS Hub or a hosting provider that includes SSL certification in its plans. Or you can purchase and install certification from a third-party provider.

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When surveying your options, you’ll notice that there’s not just one type of SSL certificate. There’s wildcard SSL certificates, multi-domain certificates, and more. To choose the one that’s right for you, consider how many domains and subdomains you need to manage your business online.

Let’s say you need a custom domain as well as multiple subdomains. For example, HubSpot’s primary domain, hubspot.com, is its main site. You can find information about its products, partners, and more here. HubSpot also owns the subdomains blog.hubspot.com, academy.hubspot.com, knowledge.hubspot.com, and developers.hubspot.com. Each of these subdomains host different properties: the HubSpot blogs, HubSpot Academy, HubSpot Knowledge Base, and HubSpot developers.

To secure these subdomains as well as its root domain, imagine having to purchase, install, and renew an SSL certificate for each. This would cost a lot in dollars and time. Now imagine if you could simply purchase and install one certificate to secure your root domain and all your subdomains. Sounds way simpler, right?

You can do exactly that with a wildcard SSL certificate. Below we’ll take a closer look at what wildcard SSL certificates are, how they work, and how much they cost.

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