Free on hosting · paid from €7.99 / year
Final price — Hostna is a small business under § 19 (1) UStG, so no VAT is added.
If your site is on a Hostna hosting plan you do not need this — the free certificate is already issued and renewed for you.
- Let's Encrypt included and auto-renewed on every hosting plan
- Positive SSL (DV) €7.99/year
- Business SSL (OV) €49.99/year
- Wildcard €89.99/year · Enterprise EV €149.99/year
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- €7.99Positive SSL (DV), per year
- €89.99Wildcard, per year — every subdomain
Which is most of the time
A Let's Encrypt certificate gives a browser exactly the same padlock and the same TLS as a certificate that costs money. It is domain-validated: it proves the connection reaches the domain it claims to. For a shop, a blog, a company site or an API, that is the whole job.
- Same encryption, same padlock, no browser warning
- Issued when the plan is set up and renewed without asking
- Covers the domain and its www
Identity, and subdomains by the dozen
Organisation- and Extended-Validation certificates are checked against company records before they are issued, so the certificate says who you are and not just where you are. A wildcard covers every subdomain of one domain with a single certificate, which is the practical reason most people buy one.
- OV and EV verify the organisation against public records
- A wildcard covers *.yourdomain in one certificate
- Issued on any host, not only ours
Validation is done by the certificate authority, not by us, and it takes time: DV is usually minutes, OV normally one to three working days, and EV can take longer and requires company documentation. We cannot shorten those checks, and a certificate is not refundable once the authority has issued it.