How do I make my blog https? I have a blog using Jekyll and GitHub pages. I have a custom domain so I tried cloudflare free SSL plan - destroyed my DNS records. Haha. Any good post for me to follow and get that green padlock?

Buy from let's encrypt

Point domain to cloud flare name servers and 24 hours later you have ssl 🤷‍♂️
Although cloudflare broke the shit out of my emails so maybe not for everyone.

You can use letsencrypt to generate a cert if you have root access otherwise sslforfree.com will do the manual cert creation so you can add it manually and update it manually using lets encrypt.

My domain is bought from GoDaddy. Pointed the domains as you said and 24 hours later - no SSL or DNS records of my domain😅. Dig command returns no A records. I'm thinking of trying to do this again. Let's see.

Netlify.

It's basically one click and they're hosting your site just like GitHub pages, but with letsencrypt and so many more features. For free.

I really hope they don't run out of investors anytime soon.

@tbodt I'll look into it tonight. Thanks.

@tbodt It's done. Cloudflare SSL was always stuck on initializing state. So I moved to Netlify and in one hour my blog is secure with HTTPS SSL. I love that green padlock.

@chaddhag HYPe

@tbodt hype?