Some SSL Certificate providers are more equal than others
Earlier this year Ionos (previously 1&1 in the UK) announced that they were changing their partner from Digicert to Sectigo issuing certificates to secure your website.
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Adding a self signed certificate to your docker development environment
These days some api's are restricted to access over Https. With Https being a standard requirement for most production sites these days, it is also worth enabling this on your development environment as well, to help you to check for any mixed content errors, and to test your apps with any apis that may insist on Https access.