On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+...@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. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
