On Friday, the SSL security certificate for this website expired. I wasn't paying attention and didn't catch it. My server hosting company set it up (along with ones for my other websites) some time ago and I was under the impression that they would auto-renew. I was wrong.
So on Friday, like many of you, when I tried to visit the website on Chrome it wouldn't load with a generic "can't connect" error message. So, right away I though "Fuck!" the issue with the hackers is back. Thankfully, that wasn't the case. It took a while to figure out it was the security ticket that was the issue. Chrome and Edge were giving the same generic error message but Firefox had a message about the site not being secure so I was able to figure it out from that hint.
Most modern browsers won't load websites that are not secure (which is a good thing)
Anyway, the new security ticket is installed and the site seems to be working fine again.
So on Friday, like many of you, when I tried to visit the website on Chrome it wouldn't load with a generic "can't connect" error message. So, right away I though "Fuck!" the issue with the hackers is back. Thankfully, that wasn't the case. It took a while to figure out it was the security ticket that was the issue. Chrome and Edge were giving the same generic error message but Firefox had a message about the site not being secure so I was able to figure it out from that hint.
Most modern browsers won't load websites that are not secure (which is a good thing)
Anyway, the new security ticket is installed and the site seems to be working fine again.