Afraid you missed the true point behind SSH for this task. SSH requires a login/password for the machine you're logging into, whereas https is only going to encrypt the data that is sent between the two computers. SSH prevents a random person from using it, https will only prevent a random person in the middle from understanding what another random person is sending to and from the webserver.
My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.
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https is also very expensive to implement
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https is not expensive to implement. What is expensive, is having thawte/verisign/other 'trusted' source verify a persons identity and sign their certificate. For an ecommerce site, where you have to convince random strangers that you are who you say you are, that is important, for a personal site, it isn't.
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