We are a small business trying to increase our presence on the internet. I've been advised that it would increase our position (maybe) on google if our website was HTTPS. I've looked into various SSL companies and I'm not sure who to trust and I'm not sure who is the best company to go with. I thought I would try let's encrypt first as it's free and if it doesn't work I haven't lost anything.
My website is hosted by British Telecom and they have advised me that my server type is Apache_Mod_SSL. My website is www.agriplantltd.com (it is being updated so the website will be changing).
Can someone point me in the direction of what I need to do? where I can find the info and please can you put it in basic working as I'm very new to this.
There are also a few other documentation pages which might help you understand Let's Encrypt better, such as:
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My domain is:
I ran this command:
It produced this output:
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
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I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know):
I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
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