The new shake down from the internet goons is the SSL certificate. While the certificate itself has been around for a while, there has been a push in the past year to get site owners to sign up for one, at a small fee of course. If you don't, well your members won't be safe. At first it was just a little icon in the url bar of a small lock not latched.
Mozilla Firefox has taken it a step further though. Lately when you sign into a site without an SSL certificate, you'll see this: So how much for this little "peace of mind"? The average cost for a basic cert is around $75-100 a year, with a high from Symantic of $399 per year, and a low from some company with a two out of five star trust level of $8.95 a year and the following small print
.* Our Team will install the certificate on your webhosting/server that supports third-party SSLs. In some cases FREE installation is not possible.
SSL configuration for your website to work properly with SSL costs $75
Installation on the hosting/web service that doesn't support SSL costs $99 per year.
Some places, like godaddy have a low introduction price of $55.99 for the first year, which blossoms to $69.99 each year there after.
BTW, none of the rocketry forums I checked have a secure log in.