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Securing Your Site

In this tutorial, we will be outlining a handy way of getting HTTPS enabled on all of your domains by using SSL’s to provide the first step in that process. Domains secured with SSL’s are needed more often every day. If you don’t yet have an SSL on your site to encrypt your data passing over the net, you should reconsider this decision. Rather than showing an extra layer of security, modern browsers instead now display a warning when a website does not have an SSL.  This essentially requires sites to maintain a positive image by adding an SSL. Let’s Encrypt has become a very popular solution for every sized business concerned with securing its connections to its website. To aid in implementing this, we recommend using Certbot. Certbot is a open source, free software tool for automatically installing and renewing SSLs certificates. Certbot implements these SSLs by working closely with Let’s Encrypt, the well known SSL provider, by creating the SSL’s for the server. Best news of all? Let’s Encrypt is completely free! Continue reading “How To Setup Let’s Encrypt on CentOS 7” →