At a very high-level, a "Wildcard" SSL certificate would allow <any-subdomain>.example.com. Whereas a "normal" SSL cert would be limited to just a single host. eg. example.com or my-subdomain.example.com, but not both.

However, many "normal" SSL certs do cover both the apex and www subdomains these days. ie. example.com and example.com - since this is a very common requirement.

Or were you after a deeper explanation?

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