Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:
If you web-hosting company does not offer Let's Encrypt integration (and you only need basic SSL security), you should at least consider switching hosting companies. Of course, there are other factors in choosing a hosting company, but in our experience, companies that want to find unneeded charges in one area do so in multiple areas. For us at least, such companies are not worthy of our business.
If you add Let's Encrypt to an existing site, it is important to know that you will likely have to fix links to a number of media assets and other resources to secure the lock symbol for your domain (ie. to be fully protected). If you use Wordpress, you can use a plugin like 'Really Simple SSL' to assist with this process. If you are having challenges, it's worth engaging an expert for this one-time process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?
At its most basic level, we use Let's Encrypt to ensure that data travelling between our servers and end users is encrypted. This protects both our clients and their customers (and other stakeholders).
Let's Encrypt allows us to provide our clients with SSL site encryption without looking like we are trying to gouge our customers financially for a similar product for which some web-hosting / security companies charge $88+ US a year. Most clients are only prepared to spend a certain amount of money. What we lose in one area, we generally gain in another -- all while providing more value to those that we serve.
The ease of installation means that we can secure a new site in less than five minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
