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HTML5 https server alternative to dropbox

makas

makas

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Hello I have a game that I will publish on facebook as a webgame, but facebook ask us to have a certificate so we need to have https my current hosting doesnt have a certificate, I read the tutorial and is a little outdated because says that dropbox is an alternative with the public folders because all of them have https certification, but dropbox recentl discontinued the public folders, my question is, is there any free alternative server with https that I can use for my game? thank you in advance
 
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Starz0r

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Rent a VPS (Vultr has $2.50 a month per server plans), or from some other reputable provider. Learn how to use a command line shell like bash or install Powershell (Default Shell on Windows 10) on the server. Learn how GNU/Linux works so you don't have too painful of a time setting things up (or pay extra for Windows Server installation, not recommended). Install NGINX, and use something like CertBot to automatically register and setup a free SSL certification from Let's Encrypt, or use Caddy and don't worry about writing a painful config file or using CertBot because Caddy does it automatically.

If this all sounds too complicated, you should be able to get away with normal "Web Hosting" if it's a HTML5/Javascript game, but Web Hosting plans are usually more expensive. If you really don't want to learn how a command line works, you could probably purchase a cPanel license to make things easier (or go with a provider that includes one), but that's not something I would do unless you are really desperate.
 
makas

makas

Member
Thank you all for your help I succesfully installed a certificate on my website, It was not free but it was cheap (like 25$/year) if anyone have doubts about what I did feel free to ask but basically I just got the certificate from a page, and asked help to my hosting provider to generate the key, so they then generate my certificate... I tried to do the lets encrypt route but my hosting provider didnt allow me to do it... anyway thank you all :)
 
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