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Moving sites From Http to Https (Need of the hour)

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Last week three of my websites come under a cyber attack and started redirecting people to spammy websites. Things come to my notice within few hours and I took all my sites down as a precautionary measure. After proper inspection of the site code, I found that this was caused an external third party Javascript, which I added to make it easy for users to share my site content on social media. So, I immediately removed the code causing this problem from my sites and even decided to remove many of such other external codes to make my sites more secure and safe for readers. I decided to took it further and shifted all my domains to a secure server so that they can remain secure in the challenging cyber world. Now all my domains and sites are served over the https and it doesn't allow others to steal the user's data or harm users. Initially, https sites were developed for the sites where financial transaction take place; however, due to the ever increasing cyber attacks, it has...