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sansidentity··on Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
Hypothetical. If I run a website for a small town public library that only serves information, ie no user accounts and no logins on our domain, is there a valid reason for me to go through the process of https and certificates? Plus I'm on a shared host. I briefly looked at the install doc on letsencypt and while it's clear it's easier than it used to be I am uncertain my shell access will give me the necessary permissions to even accomplish it without upgrading to something thing like a vps or administering my own vm with a cloud provider. Which is honestly something I am less than interested in doing if I can help it. Keeping a Web server secure is seems brutal to me.