Google to prioritise secure websites
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Google to prioritise secure websites
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Re: Google to prioritise secure websites
#2Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146433
Re: Google to prioritise secure websites
#3Good. Also, I recently poked the bear on the chromium and mozilla dev security mailing lists, and they started discussing ways to push https in the browser UI. Hopefully this momentum continues!
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/sec...
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#5Great. SEO people will now rush in for their fancy certificates.
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#6Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146660
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Wow, that's a lot of duplicate articles about this reaching the front page, one of which already contains a complaint about the mods changing the title. They could really do with merging these articles together.
I've previously suggested a feature to show title change histories under the title, before the comments, because certain comments make no sense after the title is changed.
I'd also like to suggest a similar feature for merges whereby when there are separate articles talking about the same thing, the canonical one gets used as the main link and others submissions are retained, again, under the title, before the comments.
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#7Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146660
It's good to see CloudFlare are going to make this free. In planning the launch of my own new site/blog/thing (hopefully launching soon), the one thing that's really stopping me considering SSL isn't the cost of certificates (which can be had for peanuts anyway if you don't care too much which CA you use) it's the ongoing costs and increased server load.
Right now, launching without CloudFlare would almost certainly result in the unfortunate death of my VPS. SSL would only expediate that. OTOH, the minimum paid CloudFlare package would quadruple my hosting costs - I'm not running enterprise scale infrastructure for my personal site!
If CloudFlare do make it part of their free package, I will definitely use SSL by default.
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#8Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146660
It's good to see CloudFlare are going to make this free. In planning the launch of my own new site/blog/thing (hopefully launching soon), the one thing that's really stopping me considering SSL isn't the cost of certificates (which can be had for peanuts anyway if you don't care too much which CA you use) it's the ongoing costs and increased server load. Right now, launching without CloudFlare would almost certainly…
Yes, we are going to make SSL certificates available to customers on our free plan for free.
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#9But they also prioritise speed right? So if you have the same site served both in HTTP and HTTPS, which one will win?
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#10Great. SEO people will now rush in for their fancy certificates.
If cloudflare start offering free SSL certificates we'll start seeing so many with HTTPS if it actually gives a SERP boost.