The solution for shared hosting environments is for your provider to integrate with Let's Encrypt (or any other free CA that might pop up in the future). Once

The solution for shared hosting environments is for your provider to integrate with Let's Encrypt (or any other free CA that might pop up in the future). Once this change goes through, providers will be forced to either do that or (if they think forcing users to keep paying for SSL, even though it's de-facto mandatory) watch their customers move somewhere else. There's plenty of competition out there, and a lot of them already support Let's Encrypt[1]. [1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Web-Hosting-Supporting-LE https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/wiki/Web-Hosting-...