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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

Having an SLL certificate is essential if you want to qualify for google rankings. Letsencrypt is free and easy to set-up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

I would not use a strong term 'dislike' but It would be nice if I didn't have to renew it every 3 months. I am grateful that I can use Letsencrypt till I decide to buy an SSL Certificate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

If your website is new and you would like to use an SSL certificate for FREE... then I strongly recommend Letsencrypt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Other than being good for google rankings, SSL certificate assures my visitors that my website is secure and their data is safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Letsencrypt Overview

What is Letsencrypt?

Lets Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

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Lets Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).


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Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
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Recent Letsencrypt Reviews

Rahul K.
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Rahul K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy, Free to use and auto renew"
The best feature I really lik is the cost, its FREE I have VPS and I just love this SSL issuer. easy to use and simple to implement
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Lynne C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Let's Encrypt is the perfect free-SSL Certificate service for your websites"
Not only does Let's Encrypt work well, but it's free! Each website gets its own Private Key. Through the control panel, it's super easy to add an S...
Maria R.
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Maria R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Free SSL Certificate for your website"
Having an SLL certificate is essential if you want to qualify for google rankings. Letsencrypt is free and easy to set-up.
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Rahul K.
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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

The best feature I really lik is the cost, its FREE I have VPS and I just love this SSL issuer. easy to use and simple to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

Free tier validity is very less, but the features are just awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is providing SSL for all my domain at no cost which is inpressive, it renew automatically thus no imvolvment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

Not only does Let's Encrypt work well, but it's free! Each website gets its own Private Key. Through the control panel, it's super easy to add an SSL/TLS certificate to my domain and then enable it. "Easy" and "free" are both great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

The only thing I dislike is with the free product version, I need to renew it manually every 3 months, but then that's what you get for the free version! And the free version works great, so I can't really find any issues to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Let's Encrypt is easy to set up. The free version works great, but you need to renew it manually every 3 months, so make sure you set up reminders on your calendar. Let's Encrypt does send reminder notifications, but it helps to set up an alternate reminder, so you aren't left without an SSL/TLS Certificate for your websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting a website can get expensive when you start adding additional extensions and support services. It's nice to find an encryption service that is free, yet works as it's supposed to and does a good job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William P.
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Jason K.
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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

The most helpful quality about LetsEncrypt is that it is readily available. On top of that, I don't have to spend a cent on it. I love the apps simplified user interface that allows me to issue SSL certificates to all my domains and sub-domains easily and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

Since I started using LetsEncrypt eight years ago, I've never found any reason to complain about it. Therefore, no dislikes from me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

It's free. It's easy to use. Plus, it's very effective. I highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Despite the fact that getting a premium security certificate for my website is even much safer, working with LetsEncrypt is still a very viable option. It simplifies the whole process since it comes embedded to my cPanel and also lowers overall costs of running the company website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

I just love how easy it is to get your site secured with SSL using LetsEncrypt. Most registrars offer their service now and the best part, it is FREE! I use DreamHost for hosting of many websites and LetsEncrypt just abstracts the user from the nitty gritty involved with SSL certificates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

Honestly, their service is straightforward and is easy to use and again, it's free. What couldn't you like about that. I remember the days where adding SSL to your site was not such an easy task and it was expensive too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

Just try it, it is that simple. If you don't know how, contact your web host they can help set your site up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Securing our web applications, protecting users data and following Google SEO standards so your sites don't show "Not Secure" in Google Chrome address bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

I love that Let's Encrypt offers a free solution towards getting an SSL for your website without having to spend a crazy amount of money a year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

I dislike the manual installation of installing an SSL Encryption. You also have to renew it every 6 months by reinstalling a new certificate each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

If you are looking for the solution with Google Marking your page Not Secure, or just want that HTTPS professionalism, I recommend using Let's Encrypt to get that for free! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Lets Encrypt we were able to tackle out the problem with Google Chrome marking websites without an SSL certificate as "Not Safe". We are now able to avoid that free of cost with Let's Encrypt! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Travis T.
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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

This is a great tool that gives you and SSL for free that is what makes it great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

I like this free SSL as i use it on a lot of my servers but i wish it could allow you to keep the SSL for longer than a few months a year would be ideal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I just wish that it would allow you to create an SSL for a full year. But free is free but just need to set a calendar reminder to renew it which they made very easy to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it for free SSL certs on wordpress sites, it is helping with SEO for small businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian H.
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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

Secure, Free to use, Easy to integrate into many websites and servers. Our team set this up in under a day and it automatically updates using a linux cron job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

Mostly just a feature request such as code-signing for software would be nice to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

It is excellent... what are you waiting for? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

I run over 160 websites and this software works PERFECTLY! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

Its all free, very easy to install and setup. Instant verification and compatibility with all web hosting panels and web servers. It comes with a handy API to make certificates via plugins and its very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

I dont dislike anything about Letsencrypt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

If you need free fast and reliable CA that gives you certificates for free this is the choice to go.

Your customers will thank you if you are running some type of store as i do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives the abilityy to the user to see that the trafic on your website is cyphered and anyone can see it. Also it gives reliability to the people that buy from our store to dont be afraid against fraud . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Letsencrypt?

The possibility that it gives to any web page, mail server, ftp... to encrypt the traffic that is sent and received through said service in an easy, fast, and simple way. Additionally, if you have a business or an online web page, you can provide much more reliability to customers as you demonstrate that the page is secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Letsencrypt?

There is nothing I dislike about this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Letsencrypt:

If you have a website or something where you need to encrypt the traffic between the client and the server, I recommend that you use this system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Letsencrypt solving and how is that benefiting you?

The possibility of creating certificates for each person and a wildcard certificate to secure our services and our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.