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or Cloudflare. Just a couple origin hits and your site is served via CDN for free, fast and secure.
by arlk 7y ago
or Cloudflare. Just a couple origin hits and your site is served via CDN for free, fast and secure.
- tasogare 7y agoDefinitively no. I set up my own personal page on a VPS precisely to avoid LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Research Gate or any third party service being in control of my public face. Using another service would defeat that purpose.
- a3n 7y agoIs github on your list?
- pmontra 7y agoYou are probably using a VPS running on someone else server, through many networks. (So do I.) Any of those can MITM your traffic. Maybe you're also using apt/yum to keep the VPS up-to-date. Is adding Letsencrypt to the list such a burden? Or maybe you're only against Cloudflare. I go with Letsencrypt.
- tristador 7y agoHow do you secure the link between Cloudflare and your HTTP only site?
- rahuldottech 7y agoIt's complicated, but basically... You don't. It's much better to just set up Let's Encrypt. Takes <15 minutes.
- michaelbuckbee 7y agoThis is very hosting service-specific - some hosts will expose your server via a generated and wildcard cert encrypted connection (ex: Heroku and their appname.herokuapp.com). CF also allows for self-signed certs: https://blog.cloudflare.com/origin-server-connection-security-with-universal-ssl/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/origin-server-connection-securit... - which are (to me) more complicated than standard certs. The real game changer in all of this is LetsEncrypt which has become the defacto option for services with huge amounts of custom domains (Shopify, Hubspot, Wordpress) etc.
- rahuldottech 7y agoThis is bad advice. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146854