...for a single server. HTTPS on a cloud platform is significantly more difficult and expensive.<p>We use Google Appengine, and although they have an SSL solution, it was an order of magnitude cheaper and easier to use Cloudflare&#x27;s SSL.<p>I&#x27;ll qualify this by saying our site is public, so we only need SSL because of the HTTPS-only crusade. If you are serving sensitive data, you do need to spend that magnitude more money and time to set up your own SSL.