Free and easy SSL for your website or application
I am a big fan of CloudFlare, which I use as a DNS manager, CDN for most of my projects.
But I only recently found out that they actually provide free SSL as well and it is automatically enabled by default.
If you’ve had the experience of setting up an SSL certificate before, you’ll know that it is a bit of a process and I can personally find better things to do than setting up SSL certificates.
They have 3 SSL options:
Flexible SSL (enabled by default) — SSL encryption only between the website user and CloudFlare.
Full SSL + Full SSL (strict) — SSL encryption between website user and CloudFlare and also between CloudFlare and the web server. The (strict) option requires a valid SSL certificate to be purchased from a publicly trusted certificate authority, which CloudFlare will check. The non-strict option you can install a self-signed SSL certificate on your web server.
The Flexible option is sufficient for your everyday websites that don’t process sensitive data and Google will rank your page higher because your website is using HTTPS.
If you got any questions, give me a shout on codementor.io.
