Your options are to buy two certificates (single-entity, one per sub-domain), a multi-domain certificate (using Subject Alternative Names for the domains), or a wildcard certificate (securing *.somedomain.tld). Some of the cheapest certs that are NOT LetsEncrypt can be found at Namecheap - around $9/year IIRC. The CA is Comodo (now Sectigo) - not the most reputable CA, but it still enjoys broad support in pre-loaded root CA distributions. Perfectly acceptable for personal use IMO.
If you want to share the subdomains (or send them to me offline), I'd be happy to investigate further. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <[email protected]> On Behalf Of _ Winterlight Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] SSL and subdomains I wrote about this a few weeks ago. I have a website hanging at Google but hosted at Network Solutions. It is a 100 percent personal site that I use to post stuff to friends, and business needs. It is not for marketing and in fact I don't want anybody uninvited to view it and have a robots.txt for that purpose. I knew that I had to tell my browser to ignore security and proceed because it has no SSL Certificate. Chris advised me to use Letsencrypt but of course Network solutions doesn't support it. Network Solutions says you can use third party but they will not support but Letsencrypt says it doesn't work because Network solutions won't enable it. I am stuck with network solutions for the next two years and they did give me a good deal on the hosting with email support so I decided I would just pay Networks solution... it was on sale for 42 bucks a year and I had to buy 2 years. Simple, get it done and move on, or so I thought. I didn't realize that it would not certify my two Subdomains which are there for emergencies. I need them operational more then I need the website opeerational. I immediately realized this and was able to cancel because I am not going to pay for SSL for the domain and two Subdomains. which would cost more then my hosting plan. However, it turns out the two Subdomains, which are extremely simple single text page can be accessed without the browser warning or blocking for security reasons. I have tried this with friends and various providers on different phones and computers. My question is why would the Subdomains be allowed to go through without the SSL Certificate or any kind of warning or hinderence? I don't get it? <w>
