Every domain you host here is encrypted from the day it goes live: a free certificate, issued and renewed automatically, on that site's own dedicated IP. When a site needs more (your company named in the certificate, a commercial warranty behind it, or one certificate covering every subdomain), the paid tiers from leading certificate providers start at $9.99 a year.
DV · OV · EV · Wildcard, and the free tier, included on every plan at no cost
All five encrypt traffic identically: the padlock looks the same whichever you choose. What separates them is how much the certificate authority verified before signing, and how much of your domain each one covers. Start from the free tier and buy up only where a specific site needs it.
| Certificate | What the authority verifies | What it covers | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free SSL included on every plan | Domain control, checked automatically | One domain + its www | Every site you host, by default | Included |
| DV · Domain Validated | Domain control, verified by the certificate authority | One domain + its www | A purchased, warranty-backed certificate on a single site | from $9.99/year |
| OV · Organization Validated | Domain control plus your registered company | One domain + its www | Business sites where the company name belongs in the certificate | See the order form |
| EV · Extended Validation | The strictest check of legal existence and operations | One domain + its www | Checkout, finance and anything handling customer money | See the order form |
| Wildcard | Domain control across the whole zone | The domain and every subdomain under it | One brand running many subdomains on one certificate | See the order form |
HTTPS is not a growth lever. It is a floor, and a site sitting below it loses ground in four separate places at once, none of which show up as a ranking penalty you can point at.
Google announced HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014 and has described it ever since as a tie-breaker rather than a lever. We will not tell you a certificate outranks better content, because it does not. What it does is remove a reason not to rank you, and on a network of many sites, that reason should never appear even once.
Chrome and Firefox mark plain HTTP pages as not secure, and both interrupt anyone typing into a form on one. That verdict is rendered before your first heading is read, on every visit, on every device. No amount of on-page work argues with it, which is why the free certificate is issued automatically here rather than offered as a choice.
When a visitor moves from an HTTPS page to an HTTP one, the browser drops the referrer header. The visit lands in your analytics as direct traffic and the source disappears. On a network where you are measuring which properties send traffic where, that quietly deletes the evidence you built the network to collect.
A page served over HTTPS that still pulls an image, script or stylesheet over HTTP triggers mixed-content handling: the asset is blocked or the padlock is downgraded, and the page breaks for some visitors only. Issuing the certificate at the hosting layer on every domain from the start removes the whole class of problem: there is no partial state to migrate out of later. A growing set of browser capabilities also refuses to run outside a secure context at all.
Certificate management is trivial on one website and quietly awful on fifty. Renewal dates drift apart, one expiry takes a property offline before anyone notices, and the sites you check least are the ones that break. On a network drawn from 1,300+ distinct Class C blocks, SSL has to be a property of the platform rather than a task on somebody's calendar.
The address a certificate sits on is part of the same argument the rest of this site makes. Sites sharing one IP share more than bandwidth: they share that address's reputation history, and they appear together in any lookup starting from it. Give each site its own dedicated IP in its own Class C block, and its own certificate on top, and nothing above the host level groups two of your properties together. Start there: Class C SEO hosting in the USA from $2.63/IP/mo on a 3-year term → or in Europe from $2.98/IP/mo on a 3-year term →
The free certificate needs none of this: it is already there. This is the path for a paid certificate, and it lives entirely inside cPanel.
DV, OV, EV or wildcard, in the order form
cPanel generates the CSR; you confirm domain control, and for OV and EV the authority reviews your company documents
SSL/TLS Status installs it and turns on the HTTPS redirect
Migrating in from another host? Bring the certificate or leave it behind: free SSL is issued on every domain the moment it lands here, so nothing spends time on plain HTTP during the move. Migration is free and we do the work. If a certificate looks wrong afterwards, open a ticket and a human looks at it.
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SSL is the last layer. Underneath it is the part that actually separates your sites from each other.
Non-consecutive Class C addresses from 1,300+ distinct blocks, each with private ns1/ns2 and its own free certificate.
From $2.63/IP/mo on a 3-year term · explore Class C USA →A KVM instance with full root, dedicated IPs attached, and every certificate under your own control.
From $55.00/mo on a 2-year term · explore SEO VPS →WordPress across a domain list with LiteSpeed in front, HTTPS enforced from the first request, certificates issued before the site is public.
From $2.70/mo on a 3-year term · explore WordPress hosting →Free SSL on every domain of every plan, with DV, OV, EV and wildcard certificates from leading providers starting at $9.99 a year, installed in one click from cPanel, backed by the 30-day money-back guarantee.
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