What's your opinion about putting your site behind CloudFlare, or instead of all their services, just using Let's Encrypt?
CloudFlare or Let's Encrypt?
- Thread starter Floris
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Seeing this post a bit late as ive kept myself busy, But from a developers standpoint on things
I see cloudflares SSL as an oddball situation, as youll share the same SSL IP as many other sites,
But for security and all around IP management they do alright, it seems there are ways around CloudFlares IP hiding techniques which kinda makes their DNS pulling a bit off for me
just throwing out what i know, if youd like i can take an in depth look into what LetsEncrypt does but im not familiar with them
I see cloudflares SSL as an oddball situation, as youll share the same SSL IP as many other sites,
But for security and all around IP management they do alright, it seems there are ways around CloudFlares IP hiding techniques which kinda makes their DNS pulling a bit off for me
just throwing out what i know, if youd like i can take an in depth look into what LetsEncrypt does but im not familiar with them
https://letsencrypt.org/
I use it for a VPS, it's easy to install and run, and it's auto renewing these days on most modern setups as well.
It turns your http into https at least, which is a good thing of course. It's not the all in one solution, but it's a great start for most sites.
Unlike CloudFlare it doesn't do ip hiding, etc. But you're also not depending on their network either.
I use it for a VPS, it's easy to install and run, and it's auto renewing these days on most modern setups as well.
It turns your http into https at least, which is a good thing of course. It's not the all in one solution, but it's a great start for most sites.
Unlike CloudFlare it doesn't do ip hiding, etc. But you're also not depending on their network either.
Let's Encrypt - I need to put this on all my domains - we use it at work with a lets encrypt bot to autorenew it each month.
Very excited for the wildcard SSL in January!!!
Very excited for the wildcard SSL in January!!!
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I hope this is helpful, and good luck with your search.
Hey there
And thank you for the information. Reading up on that later tonight on the iPad in bed 
If you host a site on a vps, it's super simple.. if you need instructions just PM me.