One of the bizarre things about this is that you shouldn't even need to be a business to set up a secure server, all they're doing is setting up a verification certificate that assures encryption of the traffic.

It's another issue with processing credit cards, but most organisations use a third party for that, as I think you do.

I used to use the free "Let's Encrypt" for the certificate, but one has to renew the certificate every three months, which is tedious. Now I just no longer bother, but then my websites aren't now for business.


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