After you've gone through The Basics and your website is up and running, it's time to take your self-hosting even further.
This guide will walk you through redirecting all insecure (HTTP) traffic, as well as all WWW traffic, to https://example.com.
We do this because there are 4 (unofficial) standard variations of a URL that users should be able to access your website through, but we only want one of them to be the "official" URL, which helps with both search engine optimization as well as user experience.