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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?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @07:30AM
I mentioned this to a person I know, she said CentOS doesn't use the standard directory setup of most distros. However, we've (well, she) changed it so it is closer to the standard setup on our machines but that isn't the default. Regardless, setting this up should be easier with Devuan, which does a bit clearer (IMHO) separation of global/module/site configuration by default. And when you do come to that phase, you don't have to do all the TLS stuff at once. Each of those steps is doable on their own without breaking anything that works and can have plenty of time between them.
She also said that if you have a standard CentOS setup, certbot from the EFF can do the TLS configuration changes for you automatically, including the module installation and RedirectMatch. That might be worth a try if you want a safe and usable setup with minimum effort and don't really care to learn step by step.