How to renew an SSL certificate on hosting?

Question

Digital certificates

Hello.

The client has hosting and a domain on reg.ru, the first year of Let's ecnrypt is free, but it needs to be updated every 3 months. I have fornex, I'm used to it being free and they renew everything themselves.

1) Here it turns out that I need to go to the control panel every 3 months, delete the old certificate and install a new one manually, and once a year also pay for it, right? Otherwise, the site will lose https.

2) Are there any options to renew the certificate on reg.ru at least once a year?

Answer 1

If you have shared hosting, and not VPS, then popular control panels have long had the Letsencrypt plugin that allows you to automate the process. If there the panel has not been updated for years or some kind of self-written, then it is possible that there will not be such an item in the control panel. As for paying, it’s kind of surreal, Letsencrypt itself is free, and it involves automating the process (probably a free certificate for a year is from another vendor that was used there before the widespread introduction of LE).

Answer 2

certbot

Answer 3

Buy a cheap certificate. They are now, worth a penny. Sectigo, for example.

Answer 4

I sit on reg.ru, I never updated anything myself. As I turned on Let's Encrypt in cPanel, I didn't touch it anymore, everything is automatically updated. But this is a free certificate and for a solid business it is not very good.
Clients at me sit on different certificates. Mostly they buy their own (Sectigo, aka Comodo, RapidSSL, who is richer - Symantec). If you want to buy, it's better to look through resellers, such as LeaderSSL, so as not to become attached to hosting, which will then cost you exorbitant prices and increase your tariffs in any way.