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Using SSL with a CDN

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Using SSL with a CDN

- [Instructor] You may already be familiar with SSL. In fact you may already have an SSL certificate on your website. The quickest way to tell if your site is using SSL is whether your domain starts with HTTP or HTTPS. While the topic of securing your site with an SSL certificate is outside the scope of this course, I do want to talk about enabling SSL for your CDN. This is what determines whether there's a secure connection between your web server in your CDN and between your CDN and your site visitors. With most CDM providers, you've got four options: there's shared SSL or some CDN services might call this Universal SSL. There's Free SSL using Let's Encrypt, there's a third-party or Custom SSL certificate. And then the last option would be to disable SSL. I'm definitely going to discourage you from disabling SSL, as generally speaking, there's no good reason not to be using SSL. So let's look at these first three options.…

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