HTTPS Everywhere!
This is the fourth post in a series on Modernizing my Personal Web Projects. In the previous post I set up public HTTP and HTTPS access to my sites running on Kubernetes using the NGINX Ingress Controller. However, I can do better. I’ve now decided to remove HTTP access completely and use HTTPS only. It’s 2021 – who needs plain HTTP now anyway? HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, adding a layer of encryption to protect user’s data and privacy. It’s well known that it should be used when submitting payment details online, but these days it’s become the standard whether or not payment is involved. Search engines even give a higher ranking to HTTPS-enabled sites. So why is HTTP still used? Well, historically it was expensive and complex to set up HTTPS. This has changed now though, and it’s free and far simpler to do. ...