Well more Server and Website tightening and other configuration has been going on over the weekend, been long days since friday last. I’ve moved off the self signed certificates, to avoid confusion for all and also made sure the redirects are all working effortlessly for visitors. It won’t matter whether you use an old bookmark or not I should imagine now, you’ll get to any of the blogs using http://whatever or https://whatever and it will resolve correctly. Additionally the certificates should no longer give an error in your browser as they’ve been certified. The andulain.net domain and blogs have been certified by StartTLS while Shard Of Arcadia my new Online Photography Store has been certified by GeoTrust.
To be frank I’m happy with both, I didn’t require any support for my Shard Of Arcadia domain, but there were some pithy issues with some of the older sites in the andulain.net domain which required some consultation with support from StartTLS and they were AWESOME! They were absolutely fabulous with the amount of knowledge and expertise their first level support demonstrated. If you don’t require a paid level 2 certificate, I thoroughly recommend them. While I’m still on the subject of StartTLS I also decided while I was at it to start certifying my email using a certificate from them too, so you may notice that the next email you receive from me. When I have the spare time I’ll throw the code into the andulan.net domain blogs to give them some credit. They deserve it.
Now that the work on the less artistic side of the Store is settled, the rest of my free time is now being devoted to having the content up on the Photography Store by the end of this week. All going well from this point and Shards Of Arcadia will be live and open for business. Ok I won’t get rich fast, but I do hope that over time it allows that freedom of choice I’m looking for with regard to my income & time. So the life-size D20 has been rolled!