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• lallysingh 10y ago
  Of note: TLS operational costs are still higher, right? Not necessarily. Once you enable and optimize your TLS stack you're also well on your way to deploying HTTP/2. Unlike HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 requires only a single connection per origin, which means fewer sockets, memory buffers, TLS handshakes, and so on. As a result, it may well be the case that you will be able to handle more users with fewer resources.
• kuschku 10y ago
  That applies to modern hardware and modern infrastructue – not to people in third world countries on decade old cheap hardware with barely working networks.
  • Dylan16807 10y ago
    Decade old hardware can do TLS fine. Barely working networks can do TLS just as well as they can do non-TLS.
    • kuschku 10y ago
      Barely working networks tend to use custom caching systems where TLS accesses often taken dozens of times longer.
      • Dylan16807 10y ago
        They can always make the proxy explicit.