Starting today, CloudFlare will provide all of its customers, even those using the free version of its service, with SSL certificates at no additional cost.
The project is part of the development of a new free service, called Universal SSL. As the name suggests, it is designed to provide the benefit of an encrypted connection between the client and the web server.
It is expected that the process will be completed for all existing customers by the end of the day.
“All of our customers will now be able to automatically have an SSL certificate provisioned to the CloudFlare network, which will accept HTTPS connections to their domain and subdomains. The certificates include an entry for the root domain (e.g. example.com), as well as a wildcard entry for all top-level subdomains (e.g. www.example.com, blog.example.com, etc.),” says Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, in a blog.
Matthew Prince also added that for websites that weren't using SSL before, traffic from the browser and CloudFlare will be automatically encrypted, but it won't protect the site's web server.
