budi1413
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There is one large local forum in my country that have option to always force ssl and i enable it but not slowing down the forum at all.
This is the forum: https://forum.lowyat.net
This is the forum: https://forum.lowyat.net
SSL for VPSB?
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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.
fisle
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@KuJoe
In my opinion SSL-only should be default everywhere (with spdy, please?) and you (and everyone else using Comcast) should tell this to Comcast, or switch providers.
Just because ony stupid tyranny (Comcast) is trying to hold into it's archaic ways doesn't mean the others shouldn't move forward. If you are forced to use Comcast, I feel sorry for you. Throttling encrypted data should be illegal.
In my opinion SSL-only should be default everywhere (with spdy, please?) and you (and everyone else using Comcast) should tell this to Comcast, or switch providers.
Just because ony stupid tyranny (Comcast) is trying to hold into it's archaic ways doesn't mean the others shouldn't move forward. If you are forced to use Comcast, I feel sorry for you. Throttling encrypted data should be illegal.
peterw
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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.
Or an even better compromise would be to disable SSL on IPv6 so people with Comcast who deal with the BS can still view it fine with their native IPv6 addresses.
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drmike
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Stick to SSL on 443 and non-SSL on 80....
Someone mentioned seeing the site running Nginx. Nope it isn't not right now at least. What you are seeing is a reverse proxy upstream (on vpsBoard's end).
I'm 100% for the SSL *option* for the site. I'll be using it when available.
Someone mentioned seeing the site running Nginx. Nope it isn't not right now at least. What you are seeing is a reverse proxy upstream (on vpsBoard's end).
I'm 100% for the SSL *option* for the site. I'll be using it when available.
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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:
1) Make a 50MB file on some server, and download it through your comcast connection by http
2) then transfer it again by scp or https
and post the 2 timings? I just did this from OVH to my laptop via comcast and I got about the same speed (3.3MB/s) both times.
There was a notorious incident several years back when Comcast was caught throttling Bittorrent, but they paid out a settlement and supposedly stopped the throttling: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10420831-94.html
Maybe you are thinking of that.
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I have a few clients on Comcast that says my billing site runs slow for them, but the rest runs fast. One of the contacted Comcast and they did something and now it's the same speed as every other website... Might want to contact them and see whats up
budi1413
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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.
Mun
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.
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I guess my only answer to this is let's plug up one hole at a time shall we?
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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.
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