Provide HTTPS version

[bravegnu]

Provide a HTTPS version of the site. Among other things, this will increase Google ranking. See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

[kirang89]

Using a self signed certificate ?

[bravegnu]

Self signed certificates will be a pain for most visitors, requiring to add exceptions just to view the site. See https://www.startssl.com/?app=1 for free Class 1 certificates.

[astronomersiva]

Shall we use Cloudflare? They provide free SSL along with their basic CDN plan.

[shrayasr]

👍 for Cloudflare. Must remember to purge the cache everytime an update is done, though

[astronomersiva]

I use Cloudflare for two of my sites and I purge the cache only when I update the CSS sheets or JS scripts. HTML changes are propagated in a few minutes.

[ghost]

+1 for Cloudflare. But in the interest of being thorough, I'd like to propose 2 more options:-

Should we consider LetsEncryot (https://letsencrypt.org/) for this as well? I think it'd be perfectly adequate for the job.

Another consideration, given that the website is entirely static, is moving the hosting to S3 (I run websites for 7 cents a month) will give us free SSL Certs from AWS Cert Manager.