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by ReverseCold 3165 days ago
Hey, I noticed your site doesn't have SSL.

https://letsencrypt.org/

SSL Certificates are easy and free to get, and they protect the privacy and security of your users. They also prevent ISPs from doing shady things like injecting ads into your site.

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Actually there is SSL, but it's signed to HostGator because it isn't set up correctly, mostly I think because HostGator would make it difficult for something like letsencrypt, which raises the cost of entry.

> You are welcome to provide us with the SSL and we will install it for $10, or you can purchase a 128bit/256bit Comodo certificate directly from us for $50.00 [0]

[0] http://www.hostgator.com/services

Any suggestions for good guides for setting up LetsEncrypt with something like, say, a DigitalOcean droplet with a default Wordpress install?
certbot[1] is a tool for automating the Lets Encrypt process on something like a DO droplet. there's some info about SSL in the wordpress docs[2]

1. https://certbot.eff.org/

2. https://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/web-publishin...

If you're using apache, mod_md will automatically setup LE for you: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_md.html