Let’s Encrypt!

Traditionally, getting an SSL certificate isn’t easy or cheap. SSL, or more accurately, SSL’s successor, TLS, is the underlying technology that encrypts web traffic. You’ve seen this as the https scheme on a URL and the padlock in your browser to let you know you’re securely browsing a website. To set this up for your website, you used to (and still do on some hosts) need a dedicated IP address…

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