in reply to PerlMonks Certificate Expired

There are certificates that are free (see Let's Encrypt), so there's no money saving involved.

Also, it seems Chrome pushes everyone to move to HTTPS, making it hard for users to access HTTP pages. What they are trying to protect, I have no idea.

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The Quickest Way to Set Up HTTPS
by NERDVANA (Priest) on Sep 19, 2023 at 07:24 UTC
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      AFAIK do the local admins first need to get the attention of support from pair.com which is hosting us for free.

      And since this is a goodwill thing they don't really have much of a service level.

      FWIW: http://perlmonks.org without certificate still works. It's Chrome and family which do the redirection, so you can switch to another browser like FF.

      At least on my desktop chrome stops complaining after I confirmed once to show the site anyway.

      Mobile chrome is annoyingly insistent though and requires constant confirmations.

      see also SO how-to-stop-an-automatic-redirect-from-http-to-https-in-chrome

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: PerlMonks Certificate Expired
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Sep 18, 2023 at 23:47 UTC
    And Let's Encrypt certificates can be automatically renewed, even if the server's IP address is changing, via an API key, which can be scripted in GoDaddy.com and likely can also be done for the registrar for perlmonks.

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

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Re^2: PerlMonks Certificate Expired
by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Sep 18, 2023 at 10:20 UTC
    I maintain about 8 or 9 websites. All of them are HTTP only. I do not notice any drop in the number of visitors or losing position in Google searches. For example, I have a personal website. If I type in my full name, my personal site is #2 in the search results in Google even though it's an HTTP site. If I type in a book title that one of the organizations is selling on the HTTP site, it is #3 in the Google search. (They're also selling the books on Amazon, and the first two search results point to Amazon.) One of the websites gets about 500-1000 visitors per month. It is #2 on Google search. Their FB page is #1. So, I don't believe the hype. Yes, they put pressure on HTTP sites trying to get them to convert to HTTPS, but not all sites should have to convert.
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