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HTTP to HTTPS for a restaurant
6 Jun 2025
How a restaurant deals with HTTP to HTTPS — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a booking tool that demands an account. The certificate chain breaks for a restaurant.
Two-factor on the registrar account is the single highest-value thing we do for a restaurant when managing HTTP to HTTPS. Everything else can be rebuilt; a stolen domain cannot.
We once forgot to renew HTTP to HTTPS for a weekend project and it took down a page that a restaurant linked to from a print flyer. We now set auto-renew on everything.
Big agencies solve HTTP to HTTPS with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.
We rotate API keys for HTTP to HTTPS annually. a restaurant did not see the point until we showed them the access log: the old key had been used from an IP in a country nobody on their team has visited.
The real issue was not HTTP to HTTPS itself — it was a booking tool that demands an account. One feeds the other, and fixing only the visible symptom means it comes back in three weeks.
We hand over a one-page document after every HTTP to HTTPS job. It says what was changed, what the login is, and what to check if something feels wrong. a restaurant keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
After fixing HTTP to HTTPS, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and a restaurant get an email. No surprises.
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