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WA2ISE

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Think I fixed my website wa2ise.com security
« on: March 28, 2023, 12:59:05 PM »

But you may need to type out https://www.wa2ise.com/ to make it secure.

My ham radio stuff is here https://www.wa2ise.com/radios/ham.htm

I think I have redirection active, so www.wa2ise.com should land you at a secure place.

I found that my hosting company Turbify https://www.turbify.com/ (who comes up with these names...)
bought the company that hosted me before.

As far as I can tell, I have my web pages with SSL security. It was an option I had to enable, at (I think) no extra cost.

Then I had to edit some of my links to make them go to https so they'd be secure.

As you can tell, I'm no expert at this.   :)
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K7MEM

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Re: Think I fixed my website wa2ise.com security
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2023, 11:14:28 AM »

IMHO, a SSL certificate should be free.

I use to host my web site with GoDaddy. They were great 15 years ago, but got worse with age. Their rates continued to go up and their service continued to decline. The final straw, for me, was when they called me on the phone and offered to add a SSL certificate for a mere $250 per year. I told them where they could put their certificate and went looking for a new host. Oddly enough, they never called me back again. I found a good web host, that is reasonably priced ($83 per year), and offers free SSL certificates at DreamHost.

It was a bit of a pain to move everything from GoDaddy, but I didn't have to modify any of my links. On my web pages, at www.k7mem.com, all of the links, to other internal objects, are relative (./). This includes images, Javascript, CSS, PDFs, etc.. So once you make a initial secure connection, every page is automatically secure.

DreamHost does notify me every time they update the SSL certificate.
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