As of recently every visitor of snipnotes.de gets automatically redirected to the secure, encrypted HTTPS protocol. You will see a little lock icon in the address bar of your browser. An encrypted connection is important when you enter data on a website, e.g. fill out a contact form or write a comment. The encryption ensures that nobody else can read or even modify your data.
The encryption certificate for snipnotes.de was created with the recently launched, free service Let’s Encrypt. If you also host a website on your own server and want to generate a certificate yourself, simply follow the steps in this tutorial.