And now we’re going secure
In the past few days we’ve changed our ISP from Comcast Cable to Verizon FIOS. On the one hand, it’s a good thing, because FIOS is considerably faster, but on the other hand, Verizon filters port 80. That’s a bad thing. That effectively means I can’t run a webserver. But wait, you may ask yourself, how are you viewing this page?
It turns out they don’t filter port 443. Port 443 is another port that is used to serve up webpages; specifically it is the encrypted http port (which is why the URL now has https in it). It’s a bit of an inconvenience for now, because you have to click through to accept my self-signed certificates. Luckily, I found a place that I can buy real signed certificates for $80 a year, which seems like it’s worth it to get rid of those annoying messages.
So, long story short, this site has moved from http://www.cydeweys.com to https://www.cydeweys.com
April 9th, 2008 at 22:16
Just a long-overdue update to his post: I went back to plain old http within a few days of making this change. It wasn’t working out for a variety of reasons. I’ve long since started using a hosting service that doesn’t filter port 80 anyway, so this issue became moot.