Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt

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Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt!
August 19, 2021
https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/

As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web, we can't rely and depend on a single organisation to help us do that. That's why I'm happy to announce another free CA to help us get there!

There are many reasons a certificate can stop working, with the usual one being expiration, but the fact remains you need a new one. Now, if Let's Encrypt are having a bad day and you can't get a certificate from them for whatever reason, you have a problem. This is why a backup CA is so important, we must have other options.
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I've previously spoken about two other CAs that offer free certificates via an ACME API, Buypass and ZeroSSL. You can see the blog posts about each of those two CAs linked there, but today I'm focusing on another option we now have.
SSL.com
We can now bring the total number of CAs that you can use quickly, easily and for free up to four! There are a couple of steps to setup an account on SSL.com, here's how.
First, register for a free account. [...]
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