{"id":25070,"date":"2022-02-02T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/what-is-a-wildcard-ssl-certificate\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T06:38:00","slug":"what-is-a-wildcard-ssl-certificate","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/what-is-a-wildcard-ssl-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Wildcard SSL Certificate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information on how to a Wildcard Certificate works.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Easy to manage and flexible, a Subject Alternative Names (SANs) secured Wildcard is a top choice for organizations managing multiple sites hosted across numerous subdomains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">With a Wildcard, you can issue copies of your certificate on as many servers as you want, each of which is assigned its own private key. 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The asterisk is used to serve as a placeholder for all possible subdomains.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">TIP: For more information regarding this type of SSL please our website <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/comodo-ssl-certificates\/\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information on how to a Wildcard Certificate works. \u00a0 \u00a0 Easy to manage and flexible, a Subject Alternative Names (SANs) secured Wildcard is a top choice for organizations managing multiple sites hosted across numerous subdomains. 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