Navigate to the Control Panel, Website Tab, Setup, Domain Names.
Once your domain name is configured (see Redirecting Your Domain Name), you'll see an SSL Certificate icon in the Maintain Column.
Click the SSL icon to choose and purchase your certificate.
- One-year $45.00 (US)
- Two-year $80.00 (US)
- Three-year $111.00 (US)
- Four-year $140.00 (US)
- Five-year $160.00 (US)
Neither Google nor Apple accept certificates with a duration greater than one year. We allow you to purchase multiple years up front, and we automatically renew the certificate each year (a "subscription").
Check the Auto Renew and Charge option to renew your "subscription automatically." You will be charged the same amount at the end of your subscription and have us continue to renew your certificate automatically; we can use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to ensure the best security for your site users.
For technical info on HSTS, see Wikipedia and Mozilla. If you have selected auto-renewal, you can submit your site for HSTS preloading as an extra security measure. Go to https://hstspreload.org and enter your domain name. Please refer to the links above and the preload site for more info.
Click Request Certificate to initiate the process or Cancel to close the dialog without requesting an SSL Certificate.
When you request a certificate, we will submit the request to our vendor, who will run basic background checks on the domain name. These checks may take a couple of hours. Once the request has been approved, the certificate is issued to us, and we automatically install it on our hosting environment.
Renewing Your SSL Certificate
If you checked Auto Renew and Charge, your certificate will be renewed 30 days before it's due to expire. If you did not check this option, you will receive an email seven days before the certificate expires, and you will have to log in to renew it manually. If an SSL certificate expires, your website will still be displayed in "Always Secure" mode, but your domain name will not appear in the address bar. Instead, we will display the website using the subdomain format: https://YourClub.clubexpress.com.