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Setting up codemichael.net on AWS
2016-11-18
When I realized that I wanted to throw together a personal blog site again I started looking at my hosting options. Dreamhost has been providing me with cheap hosting for a long time, but I’m a lot pickier than I used to be about what I want to do with my host. I’d been running my role-playing blog on their DreamCompute platform, but I realized that I really should be moving to AWS.…
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lets encrypt!
2016-11-17
Once upon a time website encryption was a privilege, for a hobby site, it probably didn’t make sense to spend hundreds of dollars on a certificate from one of the Certificate Authorities (CA). Even as early as a few years ago getting a free cert was difficult and annoying at best. No longer. Now we have Lets Encrypt , a free certificate authority who provides a secure programatic method for setting up you Domain Validation (DV) Certificates, for free*.…
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