Bluehost shared hosting and older Safari versions

You'll have to contact BlueHost support for this. This isn't an issue with the Certificate, but how Apache is configured to use the certificate.

The LetsEncrypt certs are cross-signed by IdenTrust, which is in the macos trusted root store until at least as far back as 10.9; but likely further back: (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202858 )

For issues like this, you can use a SSL compatibility checking service:

As you can see on that, Apache doesn't want to work with Safari 6-8 due to handshake errors.

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