Before creating this site, I took the decision to force SSL – there’s many reasons to do this.
Ah, I hear you say – self signed pages are a huge hassle as you have to agree to accept them – isn’t this a security risk in itself?
Easy – get a free SSL certificate for yourself. I’ll document more the exact method, but basically generated a CSR on my Cpanel for this site, went to
and then used my letsencrypt.org registered email address (yes, like I’d tell you that here..) and public key (saved in a nice secure place), combined withthe CSR created on my CPanel, followed the http verification process, and you are reading the https page as a result..