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is a far more secure option for hosting your content than HTTP. The latter has remained popular due to its inherent simplicity and for non-secure public content, it has been plenty good enough for most people, even though it is theoretically open to "
However, Google have been boosting HTTPS over HTTP sites for a while and the combination of this and an increasing number of HTTPS sites have now pushed plain HTTP sites into the minority of page 1 results.
This means there is an increasing case for hosting your content securely, even if the data security of your public content is not a great concern.
If you are a Passle customer and would like your content to be on HTTPS, drop us a line and we can get you moved across.