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Indeed. My static blog hosted on Linode behind Apache has survived a HN frontpage entry three times now. If I have to use HTTPS, does that mean I need a beefy s
by augustl 12y ago
Indeed. My static blog hosted on Linode behind Apache has survived a HN frontpage entry three times now. If I have to use HTTPS, does that mean I need a beefy server with lots of entropy?
- agwa 12y agoNo. My HTTPS blog hosted on Linode's smallest plan has survived a HN front page without any trouble. It's a myth that HTTPS causes significant resource overhead. As for entropy, your server only needs a small amount of entropy to seed a CSPRNG, and the CSPRNG takes it from there.
- stephen_g 12y agoNope! Google, from 2010: "On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead." https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h... Entropy is a different matter, but I believe pretty much all virtualisation platforms have ways to ensure the VMs have enough entropy sources - so it should be fine.
- jgrahamc 12y agoSee "Is TLS Fast Yet?": https://istlsfastyet.com/ https://istlsfastyet.com/