[clue] Drupal and SSL.

[Lorin Ricker]

I'm no expert on web servers, but I do have non-trivial experience with 
scaling systems -- and esp. in light of the Google pro-SSL argument 
below, in light of comparing CLUE's website (a few dozen pages so far, 
tops?  Perhaps a few 10's of regular users, a few dozen hits/daily?) to 
that of the various Google services (orders of magnitude larger in 
nearly every dimension), I'd say that taking the "Just Make All Drupal 
Pages SSL" is a no-brainer... unless of course CLUE website is on an 
ancient 286 with a megabyte of RAM backed by floppy disks! ;-)

Just my 2¢ worth, respectfully...
best regards,
   -- Lorin

On 05/21/2011 03:41 PM, Will wrote:
> So, um did Google submit this OpenSSL patch back up stream?  I believe 
> OpenSSL uses a BSD license.
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:40 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us 
> <mailto:anselmi at anselmi.us>> wrote:
> 
>     Yaverot wrote:
>      > Since his argument is mostly economic (taxing servers), I need to
>     point out the counter argument:
>      > http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-switch-ssl-cost.html
> 
>     "OpenSSL tends to allocate about 50KB of memory for each connection.
>     We have patched OpenSSL to
>     reduce this to about 5KB."
> 
>     "SSL has been optimized at its best at Google."
> 
>     "These facts prove that SSL is not as resource intensive as it is
>     blamed to be."
> 
>     I'm sold!  Sign us up!
> 
>     Dave
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