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Certificate renewal is coming up
What does this mean?
Your SSL certificate is still valid today, but it's getting close to expiring. Once it lapses, browsers will show visitors a security warning before they can even reach your site — which scares away most traffic and can damage trust in your brand.
What are the potential impacts?
- When a certificate lapses, every browser shows visitors a full-page "Your connection is not private" warning before they can even reach your site — most visitors leave rather than click through.
- This often happens unexpectedly, since renewal is easy to forget until it's already causing an outage.
- Search engines can also deprioritize sites flagged with certificate errors, compounding the traffic loss.
How to fix it
If you're using a free certificate through your host (like Let's Encrypt), it likely renews automatically — but it's worth confirming auto-renewal is actually enabled in your hosting dashboard. If you purchased a certificate separately, you'll need to renew it manually with whoever issued it before the expiry date shown above.
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