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A comment on Ask HN: SEO penalty for non-HTTPS if they are static sites?.

Re:Ask HN: SEO penalty for non-HTTPS if they are static sites? by jakobdabo on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:18PM (#13146655)
If a search engine has a rule to rank HTTPS sites higher then it really doesn't matter whether your site is static or not static.

I think there isn't really any good reason not to use HTTPS in 2016.

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Re:Ask HN: SEO penalty for non-HTTPS if they are static sites? by Tomte on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:41AM (#13150645)
Getting a certificate.

Let's Encrypt only gives you certificates valid for a few months. I'm not going to be able to remember to run some script manually to renew the certificate every single time.

Not everyone is hosting on a VPS or something similar with cron jobs or the ability to open some ports and run some software.

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