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A practical look at HTTP to HTTPS for a small hotel
12 Nov 2025
How a small hotel deals with HTTP to HTTPS — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a certificate that expires on a Sunday. The certificate chain breaks for a small hotel.
We do not start with a platform when handling HTTP to HTTPS. We write down who types what, who gets the mail, and what must not get lost. That list is always shorter than a vendor pitch deck.
Our own site had a certificate that expires on a Sunday for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
A phishing page copying a small hotel appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that HTTP to HTTPS was set up correctly on the real site.
a small hotel did not need a portal. They needed a page that said who they are, what they do, and a phone number that somebody picks up before the fifth ring.
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 small hotel keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
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