Manually install an SSL certificate on your instance

It is possible to install SSL certificates manually on your Simple Hosting instance. For automatic installation please see this page in our documentation.

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An SSL certificate lets you protect a website, or multiple addresses in the case of Wildcard and Multi-Domain certificates. Click here for more information on the various types of our SSL certificates.

It is possible to install Gandi SSL certificates on your simple hosting instance if:

• you have an Small+ size instance or greater,

• possess the certificate and its associated private key,

• have the rights to the domain to be protected,

• the length of your certificate is equal to 2048 bits as recommended by best practices for websites and applications.

In this case, you can proceed by going to your instance’s management page, specifically the page of the site that you want to protect, then:

1. Click on „Upload an SSL Certificate**“ to go to the „Upload Certificate“ interface.

2. Paste your certificate in the „SSL Certificate“ field (not the CST, you must paste the CRT). Note that the first line of an SSL certificate created by OpenSSL begins with %%—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–%%. All the lines must be run together and please be sure that there are no line breaks at the end of of the form.

3. Paste your private key in the „Key“ field. The public key must be kept strictly confidential and must not be divulged to anyone. That would render the certificate useless. It is stored in an encrypted manner at Gandi once you have added it to an instance and the website’s connection is secured.

4. click on „Create“ to finish the process. If the certificate/private key pair corresponds to the domain to protect, then the operation will be successful.

If you install a „Wildcard“ or „Multi-domain“ SSL certificate, you will only need to install it once, on one of the valid addresses: all the other addresses in question will be protected.

Supported certificates

Here is a non-exhaustive list of SSL certificates that are supported by our Simple Hosting offer. If you have a certificate from another provider, feel free to contact our customer support if you would like for us to add an intermediate certificate.

• Gandi

• CAcert

• Comodo

• GeoTrust

• GoDaddy

• Digicert

• Starfield

• StartSSL

• Thwate SSL123

We do not accept self-signed certificates.