[Rhodes22-list] Does our website need SSL?

[Tom Van Heule]

Thank you MikeW for that summary - thats good to have written down ;)
Peter - everyone beat me to it, and I couldn't have said it better.

I created a discord if anyone cares to join an 'off ;da list' talk about
site planning: https://discord.gg/CADzXh

Cheers,
Tom

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 7:48 PM Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
wrote:

> I cannot tell you all how happy I am that so many of you have shown
> interest in the website design. Thank you Peter for creating something new
> to illustrate where we can go. Thank you Luis for your efforts to work with
> Nabble. I didn't know that it was open source. Thank you all for your
> interest in the effort to bring our website up to date.
>
> For those who know significantly more than I do about web services,
> especially that we should secure the website, I am happy to report that we
> are hosted currently on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an EC2 server. It
> appears that a free SSL certificate may be easily obtained directly through
> AWS or LetsEncrypt and added to our instance with little or no additional
> cost.
>
> The responsibility for the rhodes22.org website and email list manager
> was transferred to me from John Lock in the spring of 2016 when he lost the
> ability to provide hosting services. John had assumed the responsibility
> from Michael Meltzer who had hosted Rhodes22.org for several years. It
> should be noted that Michael Meltzer still owns and pays for the domain
> name.
>
> I chose AWS because felt that we needed to avoid using personal server
> resources or services that might go out of business or change their rules
> (GeoCities). If Amazon failed, the loss of the list would be the least of
> our problems. Our AWS charges are about $15/month, a sum that I have been
> happy to pay considering the activity on da list. For greater details as to
> the origins of Rhodes22.org, Blew Skies, etc., I defer to Mary Lou as the
> list historian since I have only been on da list since 2005 or so.
>
> Since I was not a webmaster, I made few changes to the website portion. I
> was more concerned with survival of the email list and the archives. I
> asked for volunteers and help in the past and my May 24th call was answered
> by many of you this year (nearly 30 posts!)
>
> Rhodes22.org has more content than any sailboat forum I have visited and a
> very active membership. Now, we need to make it accessible to all who visit
> and easy to search. I am confident that we have the technology and the
> people to make it happen.
>
> I want to move slowly so that our efforts are sustainable. There is so
> much to talk about starting with creating a "wish list" of changes and
> features followed by defining individual tasks and implementation
> schedules. I would like to suggest a Zoom call to start an interactive
> discussion about the possibilities, timeframes and costs (time and $$$).
> Scheduling is very important as we are in the middle of sailing season in
> North America.
>
> Mike
> s/v Wind Lass ('91)
> Nissequogue River, NY
> I’d rather be sailing :~)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> On Behalf Of
> Frederick Lange
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 6:07 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Does our website need SSL?
>
> SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a global standard security technology
> that enables encrypted communication between a web browser and a web
> server.  Even if there is nothing that needs to be secured, users will be
> put off if a SSL certificate is not there.
>
> *WWW* stands for World Wide Web.  It is no longer useful to identify a
> domain as using HTML and it is too often hijacked these days.
> Regards,
>
> Rick Lange
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:59 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Rick,
> >
> > Could you clarify on your last point?
> >
> > On the proposed new home page I’ve included a link to
> > www.facebook.com/ < http://www.facebook.com/>…  Should this be just
> > facebook.com < http://facebook.com/>?  Or do you mean something else?
> >
> > —Peter
> >
> > > On Jul 17, 2020, at 5:48 PM, Frederick Lange
> > > <sloopblueheron at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > SSL is definitely needed.  Most internet security software, like
> > > Norton, either gives a warning or requires active verification if
> > > there is no
> > SSL.
> > > Also, stay away from the www prefix as that's a common redirect
> > > target these days.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Rick Lange
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:24 PM Curtis Ruck via Rhodes22-list <
> > > rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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