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Drew N, Alum
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This seems like a browser change and not a ranking issue, but I should like to investigate this further.
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The problem is: would Homestead accept or allow a third party SSL for a 3 year certicicate?
And if so, how is this added to a website built with Homestead from scratch?
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Drew N, Alum
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Here is the excerpt concerning ranking.
For these reasons, over the past few months we’ve been running tests taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in our search ranking algorithms. We've seen positive results, so we're starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. For now it's only a very lightweight signal — affecting fewer than 1% of global queries, and carrying less weight than other signals such as high-quality content — while we give webmasters time to switch to HTTPS. But over time, we may decide to strengthen it, because we’d like to encourage all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web.I continue to pass on these comments. And we do continue to monitor this situation.
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Comodo has instructions on how to add SSL certificate for dozens of companies. Why wouldn't Homestead allow us to buy a certificate and help us install it?
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Homestead should do something about it before October. If they don't, they could lose many loyal customers.
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Drew N, Alum
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This website is my business, my sole source of income and I am no longer willing to have a website that is not secure and looks unprofessional because Homestead doesn't think it's important for their customers to have secure sites.
Drew...please let me/us know what Homestead plans on doing about this. If Homestead is not going to offer their customers secure website options then I regretfully need to make a change ASAP.
Thank you!
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I just saw in another thread that someone has been in contact with Homestead for over a year about this same issue!
Please give an honest answer...one can "assume" that if people have been requesting this option for over a year and Homestead hasn't changed their stance regarding offering customer secure websites that it isn't going to change anytime soon?
I need to make a decision quickly as to if I am going to put my website elsewhere. I can't for the life of me though figure out why Homestead would not want to stay competitive w/the competition and offer this option to their customers?
Please give us all an update so that we can make informed decisions about our business websites.
Thank you!
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I believe it sums up our feelings about this situation.
At least give us the option of buying a third party SSL certificate.
Drew....Can you please update as to what the status is of Homestead offering their customers SSL options. You said you continue to monitor this and you are passing on the comments.
I just saw in another thread that someone has been in contact with Homestead for over a year about this same issue!
Please give an honest answer...one can "assume" that if people have been requesting this option for over a year and Homestead hasn't changed their stance regarding offering customer secure websites that it isn't going to change anytime soon?
I need to make a decision quickly as to if I am going to put my website elsewhere. I can't for the life of me though figure out why Homestead would not want to stay competitive w/the competition and offer this option to their customers?
Please give us all an update so that we can make informed decisions about our business websites.
Thank you!
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Warning !!!
why does homestead ignore the urgent demand for migration to https?
Jan
with the website http://www.ajediam.com since the year 2001
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Dear Drew,
any good news about the SSL certificate to get a secure https site for your homestead customers?
We lost about 50% of visitors the last time probably due to backlog in https and no mute to responsive site, proposal by homestead.
We have 323 hugue pages since the year 2001 - If we have to move it will take minimum 2 man-years of work to redo these pages.
Please help and come with good news!
Thank you,
Jan
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https://community.homestead.com IRONIC!
Drew N, Alum
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I'm glad we are all secure here ranting about all of the problems we have that they don't want to fix... but if my customers aren't secure doing business on my web page then I have no further interest in doing business with Homestead.
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At Drews suggestion for immediate need of SSL, I made the decision a couple weeks ago to move my business site (I do have a couple other sites hosted on Homestead that are not for business and don't need to be secure). A very good friend is a web designer and uses Word Press which ranks at the top of search engines and the host provides SSL as part of the package. Will be complete in another week or so.
susan2829, Champion
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Has anyone seen what this obnoxious Google warning will look like? My concern is "low information" users, of which there are many will just move on rather than take a chance of inputting any information, even the non-threatening data we need to provide them with a quote.
It really would be nice if the Homestead guys would provide some direction.
We have countless hours invested in our Homestead site so moving it is not something I take lightly.
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"Beginning in October, Google’s Chrome browser will display the message “Not Secure” in the address bar when users interact with an unencrypted webpage."
So at this time it appears this warning will be in the address bar.
Drew N, Alum
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Kathy1866, I am sorry I did not catch this earlier, but you will need to fix your domain. You are forwarding the domain. You want to point the domain via DNS. This is another Google ranking factor. If you go to your domain, you see the address bar changes to the .homestead.com URL. You would never be able to SSL your site because you would need to own Homestead.com to do so.
How to point will depend on if you want to use your existing nameservers and if you use any other services that have specialized DNS records set up.
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Drew...can you provide an update on the possible fix I think you mentioned last week?
susan2829, Champion
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Drew N, Alum
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It will not solve the issue completely for Sitebuilder sites just yet, but for Websitebuilder sites it does the trick.
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https://community.homestead.com/homestead/topics/can-i-use-https-on-my-websitebuilder-site
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OK, then, what do we do if we have an older site that's not the "new Websitebuilder?" Is there any easy way to pull an older site into the newer platform?
*Never mind, I see that the platforms are not compatible. Ugh, ugh, ugh.*
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Can I use HTTPS on my Websitebuilder site?.
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