My Hosting provider can offer a CSR cert in order to get a SSL cert from you. I have no idea how to get the SSL cert and the certbot makes no sense to me. Please help.
My domain is:www.life108.net
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Afrihost
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): haha yes but I am not allowed to install files (obviously because it’s shared)
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): Afrihost?
Do you see anything like "cPanel" when you're logged into your Afrihost environment?
I'm afraid that with Afrihost things aren't that easy. At least not as easy as Let's Encrypt is intended to be used. From their webhosting FAQ:
Are there any extra costs involved in hosting a secure site (i.e. having a SSLcertificate)?
Yes, you'll need to get a digital certificate from a Certificate Authority such as VeriSign or Thawte. This will be an additional cost over and above your hosting fee. Please contact us if you need to set up yourSSL certificate.
Let's Encrypt is meant to be automated, i.e., when the lifespan of the certificate is almost over (the certificates are only valid for 90 days), it should be renewed automatically somehow, by the software used to get the certificate in the first place. But when you have to manually get the certificate (which is possible) and have to send it to your hosting provider somehow, that's very cumbersome.
For example, you could use ZeroSSL to get a certificate. And somehow e-mail it to your hosting provider. But what your hosting provider should do, is enable AutoSSL in their cPanel control panel (if they're using cPanel anyway). And if they're not using cPanel, they should enable some other client in their control panel to let you get a Let's Encrypt certificate with just a single click on a button.
To re-affirm @Osiris’ response, you already have a certificate which is automatically installed and managed by cPanel AutoSSL, and you’ve had it since March 2018: https://life108.net/
You don’t need a Let’s Encrypt certificate. Just sit back and enjoy doing nothing.
It’s nice to be surprised in this direction (that the hosting provider and the software it uses has already taken care of everything correctly and that users don’t have to do anything more). @Juanita, how nice that your hosting provider is doing well here.
Maybe you should encourage Afrihost to update their documentation to make clear that at least some groups of customers don’t have to do anything here, because it’s already being taken care of!
