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Thanks for the suggestion! Does cloudflare essentially fulfill the same role as letsencrypt (with DDOS protection added)? I've heard of cloudflare but I'm not particularly familiar with them.
Yep! Basicall, they sit between you and your visitors as a reverse proxy. When you domain is accessed through their infrastructure (you set this up via DNS), they’ll sign SSL for you domains so you don’t need to worry about it. Using the origin certificate secures communication from your server to theirs, so there’s no point in the chain being left in the open. They’ll even do DDOS protection and some basic web application firewall for free as well.
Additionally, since they’re globally distributed, your website could have static content cached closer to your visitor, thereby giving a faster experience.
They’ve also added lots of great stuff to help with locking down remote access to your internal infrastructure. For example if I want to SSH into my homelab, I don’t have to expose my SSH globally, and when I try to access it, I get a browser pop up asking me to login to my SSO, and then grants access.
I really enjoy and recommend trying their free offering.
Yes, it can provide a SSL connection to the end-user even though you're just serving http with no cert. However it is yet another moving part that can break or be mis-configured and yet another bunch of capitalists data-mining all the things.