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SSL Redux

Journal by mcgrew

Back in March I asked you guys if I should put SSL on my mcgrewbooks.com site, since it appeared that it would raise my hosting cost by $25 a year, and there was no technical reason to have it; there is no personal information collected whatever.
        I gave a lot of thought to the comments for months, and yesterday decided to go ahead and spend the money; I just put three grand on my mortgage principal. So I went to R4L’s web site to find where I could add SSL. I couldn’t find it.
        However, their help is actually a Canadian who helps through text chat, who informed me that paid hosting came with SSL, I simply had to turn it on.
        Well, it wasn’t that simple, as they’re upgrading their tools and I ran across a couple of 404s. But I finally found the correct widget to click, so the unnecessary lock is no longer broken.
        My other site still has a broken lock, but it’s a “free” site. Registration there is $15, but you get ten megabytes of hosting. Those are the kind of site that an extra $25 buys SSL, and you might as well pay for hosting. It isn’t much more, and it isn’t hard to fill ten megs. Almost all of the images at mcgrew.info are either on Wikipedia (which reminds me, I should donate again) or mcgrewbooks.
        I wish I would have known that five years ago! But I’m still more than happy with R4L.
        Since R4L is Canadian, whose internet laws apply? America’s? Canada’s? Both? Neither?

 

Reply to: Re:It is worth learning how to set up SSL/TLS

    (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday October 16 2021, @06:32PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday October 16 2021, @06:32PM (#1187537)

    Thank you for the tips, I'll try those things. Main problem is it's not a full-time job, and I get very little bits of time here and there and can't focus on the problem.

    I doubt it's firewall, as I have the ports open (80, 443, and probably 8080 and another one just for good measure) and can ping it, etc., and 80 works.

    I'll definitely look into ssl logs and loglevel- just haven't had time to devote to it.

    Not really sure what a reverse proxy is, but I don't think there is one. I built the server from scratch (CentOS) and I'm particularly careful about what gets installed.

    There's simply a "gateway" (advanced one) that does static NAT for me, so I know what ports and IP addresses go where.

    Thanks again.

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