Security is all the hype with Google threatening to mark all sites not using SSL protocol as "insecure" or "unsecure" or whatever "non-secure" message it's going to show. Something like this:
So let's make it this site great secure again. Don't buy the certificate from your hoster just yet, if you are a small(-ish) website, you don't have to spend a penny. The things you'll need:
While experimenting with hosting options I tried an Amazon Cloud virtual machine among others to test hosting performance and ease of setting up Drupal on Windows compared to Linux shared hosting I use usually. Familiar Windows environment was pleasantly easy to configure, but failed to impress with server performance. After thorough disk space cleanup and uninstalling of extra applications I stumbled upon Event Log records of Brute Force attack attempts (Event Id 4625) that look similar to:
