(08-26-2019, 11:05 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Technically, it's pretty easy, and perfectly appropriate for a multiuser platform.  It's arguably unnecessary for a public platform, but it still helps protect things like passwords.  You do have to pay money - somewhere between $10 and $100 per year - for the certificate.

If the only use is account management, it seems a bit of a waste.  Our biggest issue is spam. If the spammer has an account, SSL won't stop the spamming. When the old forum was on an open platform (prior to migration to vBulletin), the problem was direct attacks on the forum. Now, we're just to small and insignificant to be a target. Just my $0.02