servers - Grant Winney

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May 23, 2018

Do I need to fill in all the details on a self-signed certificate?

I recently created a self-signed certificate and dutifully filled in all the requested fields... but are any of them really necessary? As it turns out, only one is - and providing the others could leak personally identifiable data you didn't mean to share....

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.