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Have you looked at using Cloudflare? Free CDN, free SSL, DDOS, and much more. All free. You don't have to worry about renewing SSL, as you download their SSL to secure between your server and cloudflare, then Cloudflare auto renew freely the user cert between the browser and cloudflare. The fastest DNS of all providers. It will dramatically improve speed and performance of this site for all users.
Cloudflare is the largest DNS provider, which just happens to come with CDN and lots of other free features. Paid plans have more, but you don't need them for basic website management.You create a cloudflare account.You change your domain DNS to point at cloudflare instead of at your server.You point cloudflare DNS to your server. Most domain registrars don't provide full DNS control nowadays, cloudflare does, FREE.When the domain is picked up in cloudflare (takes about a minute or two), you can then create an Origin SSL, which is typically 15 years. That is the SSL that secures between your server and cloudflare. Cloudflare automatically manage your front facing SSL, which will be a wildcard certificate securing many client sites of theirs, but exactly the same as what you use now.That's it.Other than the many other options you can play with to improve the speed and performance of your sites loading via cloudflare.You don't need to generate a CSR or anything on your server, you can do it all on cloudflare and just copy paste it over your existing file locations, depending on what you're using (NGINX or Apache).
Totally agree with clodflare except for the use of the wildcard certificate.If you just happen to share that wildcard cert and with 'bad neighbours' sharing the same IP from the provider, you will be blocked... period