SSL using Let’s Encrypt

Without Strong Encryption, you will be spied on systemically by lot’s of people In this post, we will see how we can secure our site using SSL certificate using Let’s Encrypt. It’s known that SSL/TLS encryption of your website leads to higher search rankings and better security for your users. However, there are a number of barriers that have prevented website owners from adopting SSL such as the cost and the manual processes involved in getting a certificate.

With Let’s Encrypt, they are no longer a concern. Let’s Encrypt makes SSL/TLS encryption freely available to everyone.

Before we dive in , Let’s understand what Let’s encrypt it. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA). and are trusted by most browsers today. In addition, Let’s Encrypt fully automates both issuing and renewing of certificates. WOW — Isn’t that exciting ??

Prerequisites

Any webserver like Apache , Nginx. (In this article, we will be using Nginx)
Own a custom domain.
Create a DNS record (A record) that associates your domain name and your server’s public IP address.

Let’s get started.