title: Do I need SSL Cert for simple community site?
body: <p>I'm working on deploying a small community site. User registration requires nothing more than a username, email address, and password. I'm not even asking for a name, and certainly not storing any sensitive data.</p>
  
  <p>Should I still invest in an SSL certificate? Would it be considered terrible practice to transmit a user's password without one?</p>
  
  <p>This is just a personal project, so I'd like to avoid the extra cost if I could, but I can't help but feel I'd be irresponsible if I didn't secure everything properly.</p>