On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
On 16/02/11 05:50, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Ok, so offering HTTPS for everything isn't essential. What harm does it do, though?
it imposes on your server cluster some requirements -- and some load -- with which it would otherwise not have to deal.
I think most load balancer appliances around also handle SSL off-loading.
Not particularly relevant to the Wikimedia Foundation (which is using Squid and will probably switch to another open source software web load balancer in the future). But relevant for many/most commercial organizations running large websites.