If your project needs a custom TLS certificate, you’ve probably been through this: copy the cert to your shell box, open a support request, and wait. Your ticket lands in the queue, an engineer picks it up, creates or updates an edge router configuration, and triggers the rollout. On a good day, you’re looking at 30 minutes before the new cert is live. On a busy day, longer. This waiting game is now a thing of the past.
The freistilbox dashboard now allows you to submit custom TLS certificates directly to our hosting infrastructure. We’ve added a form to the website details page where you can paste your certificate, private key, and chain directly. Hit submit and deployment starts right away. The form validates your input, so you’ll know immediately if something is missing or malformed.
This works for any certificate type, whether it’s a wildcard cert covering multiple subdomains or an extended validation (EV) cert with the green address bar. If Let’s Encrypt fits your setup, use it. If not, you now have self-service.
There’s one important detail to know: If you already have a custom cert deployed on freistilbox, using the new feature might require a switch to our new edge routers. Get in touch, and we’ll move you over so you can manage renewals and new certificates yourself going forward.
This isn’t a major feature, but a nice quality-of-life improvement for customers who can’t use Let’s Encrypt for some of their websites. If you’re one of these customers, next time you need to add or update a certificate, head to the website details page in the freistilbox dashboard and paste it in!
