My host, Dreamhost, is offering free web site certificates through Let’s Encrypt, a new initative to make encrypted connections the default standard through the internet. They started with free SSL certificates.

So I turned it on.

Most browsers will be warning against unecrypted web sites real soon now, so I thought it best to do this now.

The only change I seem to need was to change the Google Fonts URLs to https as well.

Note: Since the Let’s Encrypt root certificates have not yet been deployed to all browsers (especially older ones), you may get a browser message that this site cannot be trusted or verified. Hang in there, and let me know via the comments (with screenshot and date).

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