Introducing Dedicated SSL Certificates
When we launched Universal SSL in September 2014 we eliminated the costly and confusing process of securing a website or application with SSL, and replaced it with one free step: sign up for Cloudflare.
When you complete the sign-up process, we batch your domain together with a few dozen other recently signed-up domains, and fire off a request to one of our Certificate Authority (CA) partners. The CA then sends us back a shared certificate covering the root (e.g. example.com) and top-level wildcard (e.g. *.example.com) of your domain, along with the hostnames of the other customers in the request. We then package this shared certificate with its encrypted private key and distribute it to our datacenters around the world, ensuring that your visitors’ HTTPS sessions are speedy no matter where they originate.
Since that process was created, we have used it to secure millions of domains with free Universal SSL certificates and helped make the Internet a faster and more secure place.
More control and personalization
But along the way we heard from customers who wanted more control over the certificates used for their domains. They want Continue reading