Moving to SSL – Increased Website Security and Better SEO
Google and WordPress have made it their mission to secure the Web. In the “old days” – before 2016, the only way to secure a website – and encrypt data transfer – was to purchase a costly SSL certificate. That also meant purchasing a dedicated IP address, which ruled out cost-effective shared hosting. Then, in 2016, a company called “Let’s Encrypt” developed a system to enable SSL without the need for a dedicated IP address. Google and WordPress both quickly […]