In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about getting SSL certificates set up between your hosting, Cloudflare, and other web apps you may use.

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Show Notes

00:21 Welcome
01:13 Sponsor: LogRocket
02:06 Sponsor: Prismic
03:23 Wes’ story of SSL
Render
05:43 How LetsEncrypt works
LetsEncrypt
08:32 What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare
10:33 The problem Wes ran into
12:27 Support is tricky
13:54 What is Cloudapp?
Cloudapp
Vercel
15:34 Two SSL Certs are needed
16:41 First solution
17:36 Second solution
22:36 What about A Records?

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