I bought an SSL cert for my self hosted Meteor site, that was a fortnight ago and I spent the day trying to hook it up, it's so painfully complicated (for me) trying to combine nginx and meteorjs that I gave up and now am looking at hosting on Galaxy instead because SSL is the only way to go!

Installing a LetsEncrypt ssl cert on windows is so painful. but it's still a useful stuff.

Let's encrypt once setup is really painless... no excuse not to these days.

searchengineland.com/google-starts-giving-ranking…

The article is a bit old, but Google and I'm sure Bing now also, favor SSL sites over non.

I prefer to develop on a live cloud server instead of locally - then I'm always an internet connection away from my work and it saves me against local hardware failure, but be it LetsEncrypt or a SSL certificate from GoDaddy or the like, it's really not terribly expensive for an SSL cert or a wild card SSL cert now a days.

With "most" sites now collecting at least "some" personal information - it's just better to be safe then sorry.

I put SSL on everything except my client dev server. I use LetsEncrypt for most things but you can get super inexpensive basic validation SSL certs from Namecheap. I buy all my paid for SSL certificates from them and the process has been absolutely painless.

I usually don't put SSL on the websites because at the moment the cost it's no so cheap to put in all the webpages. But i don't know about LetsEncrypt and for now take it in consideration, if can be easy to make an SSL certificate and not cost additional, why no? :)