How I got HTTPS for free for my domain
Getting https in important in today’s world, it conveys authenticity and trust to the user visiting a website. From what Google has to say about HTTPS- HTTPS protects the integrity of your website HTTPS protects the privacy and security of your users HTTPS is the future of the web How can you get HTTPS for free? Go to Cloudflare.com and create a new account. After creating your account, register your domain name with Cloudflare. This can be done with a free plan for personal use. DNS Records will be imported to Cloudflare when the domain is added. We need to ensure that we have enabled DNS and HTTP proxy for our records. This (the orange cloud) means that we are using the CDN provided by Cloudflare for our domain. In this step, you will also need to update the nameservers of the domain name to the ones provided by cloudflare. To do this, you will need to go to the control panel of your domain name registrar and edit the nameservers. For my domain it looks like this in the Godaddy>Manage Domains>Manage DNS>Nameservers. This is how it looks on my GoDaddy Control panel ...