Why should you move to HTTPS? (top 5 reasons)

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by stilliard • 9 years ago

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Most sites probably should move to https, and it is easier to do it these days.

However, not all sites would technically need this. If you have a small blog for instance where you want to show off a few pics of your garden or baking or something and users aren't logging in anywhere or buying anything, the utility of a secure website is a bit less and it's not absolutely critical. (still useful to have as you can guarantee that the ISP doesn't alter content I guess)

My main concern with this https movement is that it adds up another barrier to buying a domain and creating a simple small blog or website. It encourages normal folks to just say "all this extra work is too complicated! how the hell do I set up an SSL certificate and deal with this stuff?" and they just say screw it and sign up for a Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest or other walled garden which is bad for the open web.

The answer is to make this https process as simple as possible, but I still think this sort of thing is an extra minor barrier that contributes to the open world wide web of random small website gems slowly dying off.

stilliard• 9 years ago

Completely agree, with movingtohttps.com I'm hoping to ease the process. It's open source if anyone would like to contribute to improve the guide too. But there's still many steps that are difficult that perhaps better tooling could help with.

Why should you move to HTTPS? (top 5 reasons)

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