> It would be a huge price-fixing scandal if Congress had any idea of how technology works.

It's shady, but technically not price-fixing unless they are a monopoly. You are free to take your business to somewhere else.

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winternett 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If you read into Web.Com, yes, they are quickly becoming a monopoly on host companies. They do not disclose many of the hosting companies they now own.

If you can find a company that allows clients to install Let's Encrypt Certs on shared hosting, please let me know.

	▲	selcuka 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, fair point. I have not used shared hosting for a long time now (static sites are easy/free to host, and dynamic ones don't play well with shared hosting), so I didn't know the Web.com story. I used DreamHost in the past and they had a configuration option in their control panel to automatically install and maintain a Let's Encrypt certificate on your behalf [1]. If you are stuck with Web.com you may consider using a reverse proxy/CDN such as CloudFlare. [1] https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216539548-Addin...