Is it hard to set up a secure website

[Getback]

And can I do it for free!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

And can I do it for free!

Yes and no.

If you want to do it in a commercially viable way you have to purchase a security certificate from a CA and that's about the only mandatory cost.

You can however set up a SSL protected site using your own generated SSL key which will enable you to send your key to a client and have the traffic encrypted. This is enough to keep passwords etc. information from going in public. This might be, however, a problem if you do web commerce and you have random clients - they won't necessarily trust your certificate and, then, your site.

[Getback]

Yes and no.

If you want to do it in a commercially viable way you have to purchase a security certificate from a CA and that's about the only mandatory cost.

You can however set up a SSL protected site using your own generated SSL key which will enable you to send your key to a client and have the traffic encrypted. This is enough to keep passwords etc. information from going in public. This might be, however, a problem if you do web commerce and you have random clients - they won't necessarily trust your certificate and, then, your site.

Thanks MrRipley, All I want to do is set up a site for my Squad (Association). Nothing major. Although I would like PW security.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Thanks MrRipley, All I want to do is set up a site for my Squad (Association). Nothing major. Although I would like PW security.

If you want password protection then you need access to the web server, that's where you can set access options to your webpages. If you host your own pages then it's real easy you don't even need SSL necessarily (assuming the squad pages do not contain sensitive information enough to worry about someone eavesdropping the connection).

[Reschke]

When I ran a couple of sites for some folks it was one of the easiest things to setup for simple security like that...however that was over 5 years ago and some things have changed.