How to add SSL to your website using certbot and LetsEncrypt

Running your web server without SSL can create the impression that your content is not secure. Chrome shows a nasty “Not Secure” note next to your domain. It sucks.

But it only takes 30 minutes of your time to start serving via HTTPs on a Node/Express server. Just follow the instructions in this SSL tutorial.

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SSL Connections via HTTPS Protocol

SSL encrypts outgoing and incoming data between client and server. This helps provide increased security for data such as credit card numbers, emails and passwords. With HTTP protocol, the data is sent as-is. (Perhaps, it may have been compressed, but not really encrypted by an encryption algorithm.)

This is important because unless you implement SSL the data sent to the server is not secure. Also Chrome and other browsers will display “Not…