chris_blues wrote in Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:19 pm:Well, Let's encrypt was founded to make it easy and free of cost for every server to have solid encryption. Being a maintainer of a web server of my own, I think that it a good thing, to have services like that. And you can be assured, if Let's encrypt should go away some day, that there are so many people, to found a new similar service.
Anyway, many hosters offer some kind of encryption for their customers. Some for free, some for fee... I mean, it's not only, that others can't read, what comes through your connection. It's also a big security issue in terms of drive-by attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks and so forth. I, for one, think that I don't want my visitors being vulnerable to such attacks, because of my setup of the server.
As I understand it, the 90-day limit is there to ensure, that old CA's and old or faulty certificates can't get abused for long. After 90 days everything is reset. It's just a small cronjob in practise.
But I don't want to persuade anyone to do anything. That's anyone's own decision. I just thought, it might be good to trigger some thinking.
Thanks Chris.
I' m not an expert with all this online stuff. Another concern I have is, if all my pics here wont show up any more after I set the server to SSL. Do I have to change then all the paths of my postings here and for the download links afterwards to https:// or will the server redirect this automatically?
Not even sure if I can edit posts that are years old here?
And another pic, just to become not to much off topic
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