
Starting from 2017, a SSL Certificate is no longer optional for your website.
Regardless of what type of website you are running, not having a SSL Certificate will result in your website being penalized by major web browsers.
Google announced that from Chrome 56 onwards (available in January 2017), they will start marking HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure.
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