Certificates, HTTPS, malware and hardening.
Getting the padlock, keeping it, and keeping everything behind it safe. Free SSL is included on every plan here, so most certificate questions are really about mixed content, redirects or a stale cache rather than the certificate itself. This section covers those, plus the practical hardening that stops most compromises before they happen.
A filter sitting in front of your site that inspects requests and blocks patterns that look like an attack, before they reach your code.
What an SSL certificate actually doesThe padlock explained plainly: what a certificate actually verifies, what it encrypts, and the questions it was never built to answer.
What to do first if your website is hackedA calm, ordered checklist for the first hour: contain it, change every credential, restore clean, then find how it got in.
Why does my site still say "Not secure"?A certificate can be installed correctly and the warning can still appear — usually for one of a handful of specific, fixable reasons.
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