Cloudflare Universal SSL totally, completely rocks

Cloudflare was already my favorite non-Google internet company because I’m a Golang fan boi and Cloudflare is vocal about their love of Go.

So when I heard that Cloudflare was willing to help me, for free, put SSL on my website (which I’ve been meaning to do since like forever), I was ready to go for it.

First the rocks. Well, it’s free, for little dinky domains like mine. And that’s a hell of a great way to teach techies like me how their system works. I’d happily sell it to a client who asked me about it. The signup process is fast and easy and interesting. And it works: nella.org via SSL

But it sucks too: after turning Cloudflare on, OpenID login on my blog stopped working.

But it rocks again: within seconds of turning it off from their great control panel UI (which sucks in one small way: the “submit” button is way down the page, a long long way from where you edit the first few entries on your DNS) my blog let me log in with my OpenID URL.

So then I looked a little bit and I discovered that there’s a solution to my problem. It worked great, and this site is back to SSL via Cloudflare right now.

Thanks Cloudflare!