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Part 3 – Automating SSL Certificate Creation and Renewal Using ACMEbot

Part 3 – Automating SSL Certificate Creation and Renewal Using ACMEbot

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Part 3 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 2 where we configured our custom domain and DNS in Azure and Cloudflare. A very important piece of your website’s security is having a trusted SSL certificate bound to it. The SSL certificate enables the encrypted connection that web browsers rely on to connect securely to your website. Purchasing and renewing SSL certificates is a costly and time-consuming process. On top…

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Part 2 – Configuring a Custom Domain in Azure and Cloudflare

Part 2 – Configuring a Custom Domain in Azure and Cloudflare

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Part 2 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 1 where we deployed a WordPress site using Azure App Service. In this post, we will cover adding a custom domain to Azure and verifying it via Cloudflare DNS. We will then add an A record to Cloudflare so we can use a custom domain instead of the domain.azurewebsites.net address provided to use by Azure. To finish, we will add one…

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Part 1 – Deploying WordPress via Azure Marketplace

Part 1 – Deploying WordPress via Azure Marketplace

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Part 1 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites: An Azure Subscription – Azure offers a 200$ credit, enough to run this solution for months Cloudflare Account and Registered Domain – Total cost over 3 years – $25  to $40 1. Head to the Azure portal, from the home page, search for Marketplace and click on Marketplace. 2. From the Marketplace, search for WordPress, press enter, select the first option, click…

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Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress website on Azure

Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress website on Azure

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Facts are fun, let’s start with a few. According to WordPress.com, WordPress-powered websites make up 42% of the internet.   A 2021 survey by Statista revealed that 67% of organizations are using Azure for their cloud services W3Techs reports Cloudflare is used by 80.0% of all the websites they know. About 19% of the entire internet. According to Let’s Encrypt, over 260 million websites use its TLS certificates In this five-part series, we will deploy, secure, set up a budget,…

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