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Re:GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain by majewsky on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:14AM (#16867536)
They may be using Cloudflare in some regions only, or as a standby to take over in case of a DDoS on the original host.
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Re:GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain by icebraining on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:41AM (#16867750)
Another post in this thread answered it: HN uses Cloudflare's DNS, and they create a cert even if you just use the DNS.
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Re:GitHub Pages generated a TLS cert for my own domain by detaro on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:45AM (#16867785)
HN doesn't use Cloudflare DNS for news.ycombinator.com, but is actually served by Cloudflare.
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