Posts tagged with “security”

July 14, 2016

How to Obtain and Automatically Renew SSL Certs with Let's Encrypt on Node.js

Thanks to Let’s Encrypt, everyone can enjoy the security of an SSL-protected domain. To be fair, there are still a few places where their automated system won’t work, like if you’re running your web server on an irregular port, like 8443, or perhaps running in a load balanced…

April 16, 2010

SSL Certificates on the Cheap

Back in my first startup where we were accepting credit cards, we purchased an SSL certificate in order to assure our customers that their credit card information was being transmitted securely. We bought that SSL certificate from VeriSign for $495 per year. That was 2003. Nowadays, you can get an…