[Rhodes22-list] Does our website need SSL?

[Hank]

That explains it.  DIdn't realize you were running mailman as well.

Hank

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:49 PM Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
wrote:

> The EC2 was the lowest cost AWS Linux product that was able to provide
> hosting and MailMan services at the time. Things may have changed since
> then.
> Mikes/v Wind Lass ('91)
> -------- Original message --------From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> Date:
> 7/21/20  7:18 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Does our website
> need SSL? Hey Mike,I'm curious why you are running the website on an EC2
> instance.  Isn't itpretty much static?  Have you considered just having it
> in an S3 bucketwith cloudfront?  Then you wouldn't have to manage the OS on
> the EC2 andit's probably cheaper as well.HankOn Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:48
> 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:> > >> >> >>>