SSL Certs, Approvals and Cloudflare

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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