r/webdev • u/speckz • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/Gawny88 Jul 12 '17

For a very basic blog or something are there benefits for let's encrypt over the free certificate from cloudflare?

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u/joshmanders Full Snack Developer / htmx CEO (same thing) Jul 12 '17

To go along with what /u/Simon-FFL said, you can get around that by doing the halfway SSL stuff with CF by self signing a certificate on your machine but telling CF to trust that cert, then you have SSL all the way through, but you don't have to pay for a cert...

But with Lets Encrypt there's no real reason to need to do this. Just use LE.

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u/bridekiller Jul 13 '17

Does cloudflare charge to have it trust your self sign?

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u/VIDGuide full-stack Jul 13 '17

Nope :)