Protect Your Site with an SSL Certificate

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a security standard that encrypts the data traffic between your website and its visitors, preventing third parties from reading it. On a site without SSL, form data, passwords and credit card details are transmitted in plain text. Google and Chrome flag non-SSL sites as 'Not Secure' — it is critical for SEO and conversion.

DV (Domain Validation) verifies only domain ownership and is issued in 5 minutes — for individual sites. OV (Organization Validation) verifies your company's legal existence, issued in 1-3 days — for corporate sites. EV (Extended Validation) is the strictest validation, issued in 3-7 days, and shows the company name in the browser — for banks and large e-commerce sites.

Wildcard SSL protects all your subdomains with a single certificate using the '*.yourdomain.com' format. For example, it covers an unlimited number of subdomains such as shop.yourdomain.com, blog.yourdomain.com and mail.yourdomain.com in one certificate. It offers a cost advantage for projects with many subdomains.

Let's Encrypt only offers 90-day certificates at the DV level and does not include company validation, an insurance warranty or a site seal. For corporate projects, e-commerce sites and banking applications, insured and high-trust certificates such as OV/EV are essential. Let's Encrypt also requires constant renewal, whereas commercial certificates are valid for 1-2 years.

Yes. On Clou.TR hosting plans, SSL installation is handled by us completely free of charge. We also offer remote installation support for sites on a different hosting provider (on request, at no extra cost).

Under CA/B Forum rules, all commercial SSL certificates are valid for a maximum of 1 year (398 days). We send automatic renewal reminders for expiring certificates, and renewal takes 5 minutes.

Certificate insurance is the compensation paid to e-commerce customers who are harmed as a result of a certificate authority (CA) mis-issuing a certificate. Coverage starts at ₺50,000 for DV SSL and reaches up to ₺1,750,000 for EV SSL.

Yes. An SSL certificate comes with a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) and a private key file. Using these files you can install it on an unlimited number of different servers. What matters is the number of domains, not the number of certificates.