{"id":488,"date":"2025-12-29T08:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/?post_type=manual_kb&#038;p=488"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:00:59","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-to-generate-a-free-lets-encrypt-certificate","status":"publish","type":"manual_kb","link":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/knowledgebase\/how-long-does-it-take-to-generate-a-free-lets-encrypt-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take to generate a free Let&#8217;s Encrypt certificate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The certificate is activated for each correctly directed to <a href=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\">mybox.com<\/a> servers. By correct referral we mean both full delegation, where the domain has set DNS servers: <strong>ns1.mybox.com<\/strong> and <strong>ns2.mybox.com<\/strong>, but also when you do not want to make a full change of domain delegation, directing the A record to the IP address of the server associated with your account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember that if you do not want to change DNS servers, but only point the domain with the A record to the server&#8217;s IP address, you should do it for both the main domain address and the subdomain with the www prefix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"mybox-2193404254\" class=\"mybox-content mybox-entity-placement\"><div class=\"early-access-banner-inpost\">\r\n  <div class=\"banner-left-inpost\">\r\n    <div class=\"icon-box-inpost\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/square-info-icon.svg\" alt=\"Info\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"text-box-inpost\">\r\n      <span class=\"label-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Early access<\/span><\/span>\r\n      <h4><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Still need help?<\/span><\/h4>\r\n      <p><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Contact our customer service team.<\/span><\/p>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"banner-right-inpost\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/panel.mybox.com\/helpdesk2\/v\/list\/\" class=\"banner-button-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Message us<\/span><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turns on for a maximum of a few minutes. Our systems verify new websites at the appropriate time interval and automatically enable the certificate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[11,25],"manual_kb_tag":[353,371,372,618,669,1205,1412,2220,2242,3072],"class_list":["post-488","manual_kb","type-manual_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","manualknowledgebasecat-ssl-certificates","manualknowledgebasecat-hosting","manual_kb_tag-domain-delegation","manual_kb_tag-lets-encrypt","manual_kb_tag-ssl-certificate","manual_kb_tag-free-ssl-certificate","manual_kb_tag-nameservers","manual_kb_tag-certificate-issuance-time","manual_kb_tag-dns-configuration","manual_kb_tag-free-certificate","manual_kb_tag-automatic-certificate-renewal","manual_kb_tag-nameserver-configuration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}