SSL Certificate expired

[pslat]

Hi, I received a detailed email yesterday warning me that the SSL Cert was expiring on the site Monday 24th Feb.
'The “cPanel” AutoSSL provider could not renew the SSL certificate without a reduction of coverage because of the following problems' followed by a list of each service on the site and 'because of an error (cached): Could not connect to '198.91.81.12:80': Connection timed out'..

I had guessed this was due to the ongoing migration to the new admin panel but there is a comment on another thread that SSL is no longer being supported by free hosting since the migration? All new web browsers give alarming warnings if a site is not using https so any site that does not have it is now only useful for testing and nothing else.
Can you please tell me if ssl will be re enabled on free hosting or if it is possible to add an ssl cert to a free hosting site? If not then it would seem to me x10 have made a decision to dump free users, which is their right but it would just be better to be straight up about it than to say "can't make any promises" as in other threads.

 

[Anna]

SSL was never officially supported for free hosting.

One or two of the old cPanel servers started issuing certs after SSL had accidentally been turned on during an update before it was noticed by staff however, and I guess those certs possibly renewed themselves afterwards as well.

With the servers no longer being cPanel, obviously the cPanel issued certs can not be automatically renewed.

If you have your own domain, cloudflare is an option to get ssl, using their flexible setting.

 

[pslat]

Ok Anna, I've tried that. Will need to wait for nameservers to update to see if it works thanks.

 

[pslat]

Just to say I set up cloudflare but because the free site ends up pointing to a subdomain on x10hosting I get the same warning message. Looks like I have to move hosts again but the most irritating thing is that I am getting daily emails from cpanel (yes cpanel) telling me the certificate has expired.

 

[spacresx]

Just to say I set up cloudflare but because the free site ends up pointing to a subdomain on x10hosting I get the same warning message. Looks like I have to move hosts again but the most irritating thing is that I am getting daily emails from cpanel (yes cpanel) telling me the certificate has expired.

As Anna stated ssl was never intended to be available to free users. (even with cpanel)
But some did end up with it, i know as i had it on my website as well before the migration.
If you had the notices checked in the previous cpanel options,
you would still get the emails after x10hosting stopped using cpanel.
those would not usually stop until after the certificates expiry date.

if you would have unchecked the options in cpanel before the migration,
you would not have gotten the notices.