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Quick answer: Web hosting with free SSL means your host issues and installs a TLS certificate for your domain at no extra cost, so your site loads over HTTPS with the padlock in the browser. A free certificate encrypts traffic just as well as a paid one. What matters is that it covers every domain…
Short answer: On 21 October 2026 the PHP project shipped a PHP security update (8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35) that fixes two critical flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, which can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Move every site to a supported, patched PHP branch. PHP 8.1 and older get no official fix. If you host websites,…
