I built a streaming radio station for my home network using a Raspberry Pi and open source software. This post explains how it was setup, and some additional customisations I made.

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These days, every website should have a digital certificate. HTTPS isn't just for your login and shopping cart checkout pages anymore.

Fortunately, "Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit." [1]

Unfortunately, my website is on a shared host (Media Temple) where I can't run the automation tools required for Let's Encrypt.

Here's how I made it work:

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Ok, "better" is subjective. Is this website better than no website? Maybe. Is it overly convoluted? Almost certainly.

Here is the setup I've created for web development:

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