{"id":10855,"date":"2024-06-04T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:47:50","slug":"ssl-certificate-get-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/ssl-certificate-get-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an SSL Certificate and how do you get it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Secure Socket Layer usually abbreviated as SSL a digital certificate that encrypts data exchanged between a web browser and a web server. 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