Arstechnica reports
In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free "wildcard" certificates to enable secure HTTP connections for entire domains. Today, Let's Encrypt took that promised service live, in addition to a new version of the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, an interface that can be used by a variety of client software packages to automate verification of certificate requests.
[....]Many hosting providers already support the registration of Let's Encrypt certificates to varying degrees. But Let's Encrypt's free certificate offering hasn't been snapped up by some larger hosting providers—such as GoDaddy—who also sell SSL certificates to their customers.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday March 14 2018, @05:47PM
My situation is similar as I self-host a number of services in my house, so one IP and reverse proxy to direct traffic. I never implemented HTTPS as my website is just static content, but I probably will setup a wildcard certificate now that they exist. I think it will be particularly nice for firing up new web services in a separate docker container for demonstration purposes that isn't intended for production.