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Switching on SSL at Cloudflare without breaking the site

This is the single most important setting Cloudflare has, and the easiest one to get wrong. The wrong value does not produce a warning: it produces a site that loads…

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Moving your site to https with Really Simple SSL

Read this before installing anything: the certificate is already ours and already there. Domains hosted with us get a certificate issued and renewed automatically, with no request, no cost and…

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SMTP ports 465, 587 and 25: SSL, STARTTLS and which one to use

To send e-mail from Outlook, your phone or a program of your own, use port 465 with SSL/TLS, which is the one our guides give. Port 587 with STARTTLS is…

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cURL error 60 in PHP: SSL certificate problem, and why not to switch verification off

“cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem” means PHP connected to a service over HTTPS and did not trust the certificate that service presented. PHP is doing what it should: refusing…

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DV, OV and EV certificates: which kind of SSL certificate you really need

The short answer: for almost every site, a DV (domain validation) certificate is enough, and it is the free one that already comes with your account. OV and EV add…

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The free SSL certificate did not renew: why AutoSSL fails and what to check

The short answer: the free certificate that comes with the account (AutoSSL, from Let’s Encrypt) is issued and renewed by itself, but only if the server can prove the domain…

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Testing IMAP, POP3 and SMTP by hand with openssl s_client: a guide for technical users

This article is for technical users with a command line (Linux, macOS, or Windows with OpenSSL). The short answer: openssl s_client opens an encrypted connection to the server and lets…

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AutoSSL behind Cloudflare: why the free certificate leaves names out or fails to renew

The short answer: the server’s free certificate (cPanel’s AutoSSL) is still needed with Cloudflare in front: it protects the leg between Cloudflare and the server in Full (strict) mode, and…

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Wildcard SSL: one certificate for every subdomain, and when you do not need it

The short answer: a wildcard certificate (with an asterisk) covers every subdomain one level down, such as shop.example.com and blog.example.com, without listing them one by one. You almost never need…

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How to access cPanel Control Panel?

cPanel is the control panel where you manage everything in your hosting account - files, e-mail accounts, databases, backups, subdomains and SSL certificates. There are three ways to reach it,…