Cloudflare was recommended as a solution for a small business owner to manage their SSL certificate for free without needing to switch from their current web host, GoDaddy.

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        "excerpt": "Godaddy are streets behind on the whole automated issuance of TLS stuff if you don't throw money at them.\n\n See https://letsencrypt.org/docs/godaddy/",
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