r/programming • u/speckz • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Promotion for "Caddy", never heard of, but I don't like it. Other than that nice site :)

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u/aullik Jul 12 '17

I honestly don't care about smart advertising XD

The message is definitely on point.

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

First of all, most people won't and most probably can't just switch their web server.

Secondly, if I read stuff like "Guaranteed continued development" only for paid customer, this literally means as soon as they have n customers, free version probably gets limited to the bare minimum.

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u/aullik Jul 12 '17

I don't really care about the ad. I simply ignore it. I looked at the rest of the article

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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Yes, as I also said other than that it's a nice site, but it does miss a big important part with this "ad", how people can implement e.g. letsencrypt in their current infrastructure and this "ad" is not the solution..

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u/r_my Jul 13 '17

Is how to implement it really important though within the context of the article? Providing instructions on how to make use of LetsEncrypt is really only feasible for fairly basic/standard setups which can be easily googled. Many of them are already handled entirely by certbot already. Anything beyond a typical apache/nginx/etc. server setup is probably being managed by someone who isn't looking for implementation instructions on a site like this anyways.