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Configuring SSL with Let’s Encrypt on AWS EC2

2017-03-11

SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is one of the technologies essential to security on the web. It allows a web browser and server to form an encrypted connection. Encryption is an essential part of web security. If you’re browsing the web in a coffee shop or airport without encryption, it’s trivial for anyone else to see exactly what you’re looking at.

Setting up Grav on AWS EC2

2017-03-04

I’ve been operating my site on various flavors of shared web hosting for years. Shared hosting has a lot of benefits: it’s cheap, easy to set up, and hides almost all of the nuts and bolts. I finally decided to take the plunge and remove the training wheels by hosting my site on AWS.