New Domain

I purchased a new domain, guzhengsvt.cn, on Alibaba Cloud.

(Used a coupon for 29￥ the first year, with a renewal fee of 39￥ annually).

Originally, I intended to use it temporarily for WeChat Mini Program development, but it wasn’t needed, so I ended up pointing it to my blog instead.

Since multi-domain SSL certificates are too expensive, I used the MiFa domain redirection service to redirect guzhengsvt.cn to guzhengsvt.top.

I already had an Alibaba Cloud-signed SSL certificate for the .top domain, expiring in August 2024. However, on November 14 this year, Alibaba Cloud updated its free SSL certificate policy—now allowing only single-domain SSL certificates with a maximum validity of 3 months per application. This means I’d have to frequently renew the certificate for the newly purchased .cn domain (though I don’t really need it right now anyway).

I reviewed the steps for domain resolution and SSL certificate application/configuration, and I must thank VPSor for how easy their SSL certificate setup is.
I was going to praise Alibaba Cloud’s SSL certificate service too, but… well, emmm.