Blog upgrade to S9y 2.00 and HTTPS

Last weekend I went for Serendipity software version 2. This caused lot of downtime as the upgrade didn't go smoothly. I also made the entire server almost choke to a crash as my .htaccess / mod_rewrite -trickery caused looping. My Apache tried to loop itself into an exhaustion.

After I got everything back into shape, I got new toys. Especially the back office -side is vastly improved. On the public-side it seems pretty much the same.

While working on the blog I chose to go HTTPS. That seems to be the industry trend, see HTTPS as a ranking signal. While at it I verified my SHA-256 -signed certificate with Qualsys SSL Labs analysis tool. A certificate signed with less bits is considered as "insecure" nowadays as Google Chrome chooses to dislike your SHA-1 or MD5 -signed certs.