There's no reason for it to be slow. People use gmail all day long, it's ssl-only, has N million users, and it's at least usably fast. If this site is slow then it's downloading too much JS bloatware and other crap, and should stop. For example, I see it's trying to inline a bunch of gravatars. I adblocked gravatar.com years ago, and that probably helps the speed, though I did it for privacy reasons.
Found it earlier in the thread. Sorry man.I hate repeating myself.
Every used Comcast?
While I appreciate you feeling sorry for me, I don't see why SSL should be forced when it's extremely simple to offer both non-SSL and SSL on the same webserver. Heck, I'll even settle for having to use another domain name or subdomain if that's a good compromise for everyone. I enjoy vpsBoard a lot, but not enough to deal with the same load times I experience with GMail.
I'm on Comcast right now, looking at vpsboard through an ssh tunnel to a socks proxy running on a vps. SSL sites work fine through that. I just tried looking at some ssl sites without the tunnel and they work fine that way too. So I don't see what the problem is.
This sounds to me like your VPN is slowing things down. Could you try the following:
All my bookmarks are without https. -_-
In a way it still might be a waste, from the little I know of the setup, there is still unencrypted traffic going on in the backend, which actually maybe easier to attain then getting it over the internet.
I bolded what he said about SSL below.
Basically, that's the issue. It's not the SSL's mechanics issues but more the ISP's limiting of SSL traffic.
I guess my only answer to this is let's plug up one hole at a time shall we?
I'd like to see the evidence that Comcast is causing that, rather than the VPN causing it. I do get higher speed than that through scp on Comcast all the time.
