Weather website holders - Chrome changes

Supercell

Thought I'd post this here as I know that a few of the posters here currently have their own personal website.
As you may or may not know, Chrome is going to mark all non https sites - those starting with http as not secure starting in July .
So from July users will get a message stating that the website is not secure and hackers are going to steal all their money if they proceed or words to that effect.

I recently purchased the loughlinstown.ie domain with the intention of moving my loughlinstown.com site to that and this provided a good reason to go ahead. It was not as hard as it seemed at first once I had it all figured out, so I thought I'd share the knowledge a little.

I'd recommend checking does your hosting provider supports "Lets Encrypt", if they do, and many do, you can convert your site from http to https with the click of a button and not have to pay any thing. The only caveat is that unless you have a dedicated IP, shared IP https may not work so great on older operating systems like Windows XP (yes some people still use that).. If you consider that an issue ( its not worth the expenditure for me personally to buy a dedicated IP for the five or so visitors to my site still on XP!) then you'll need a dedicated IP.
I moved my site to https://www.hostens.com/ (generic link, I don't get anything for promoting them) based on some reviews online and the fact that it does have Lets Encrypt built in and is dirt cheap

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, it took me a little while to get my head around it all but in the end the move was actually very painless.

joujoujou

I'm already with let's encrypt - a guy hosting my site arranged the whole thing quickly and smoothly. Well, I didn't even notice that!