see this check of the system, which does post there are revocations in the ssl chain: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=sudoroom.org This problem only shows up for modern firefox for me, so I'm inclined to take this advice: http://it.i88.ca/2014/02/how-to-solve-secure-connection-failed.html this post suggests the godaddy cert could be the problem (sounds probable): http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,160046,160049 // Matt On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: