Besides, it's easy and free these days. Unless, apparently, you use some crappy shared hosting provider. Get a VPS, man! They're cheap!
How do they do this? How do you set up an SSL cert on a shared host (aren't SSL certs tied to an IP)?
I have a site on a virtual host (via Hurricane Electric), and I don't want to move to another hosting provide (cloud hosting) if I can avoid it. But unless something has changed (which I admit, it may have - I am not up on all the latest web hosting tech), my understanding was that you can't have an SSL cert on a virtual host.
I also found that my hosting provider (HE) does have something where on vhosts they have an SSL side - but as far as I can see they don't support (that is, by default or whatnot) Let's Encrypt certs.
However, digging deeper - there may be a way for me to set it up; I'd need to use a different LE client that doesn't need root access (there are a few), then I'd also have to set up a cron task to renew the cert every (< 90) days or so. Then update all of my pages, templates, code, etc to use https instead of http where applicable...a not insignificant amount of work, but doable.
I might still fire an email over the HE - maybe it's finally time for me to move away from them and over to Digital Ocean or something that supports LE certs out-of-the-box (I'd still have to fix the links on my site - but then again I've thought about just revamping my site again - it's due for it)...
Wouldn't these VPS come with a sensible default?
Also backups, if it needed to be said.
If you want to save a bit more money and are willing to commit to a 1-year contract, you could even get a t2.nano instance from Amazon EC2 at around $3/month.
I use DigitalOcean now for almost all of my sites. I have abandoned wordpress lately and so I am using custom built sites for all my projects. DigitalOcean is awesome.