On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:11:48PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Friday 09 Mar 2012 21:37:12 Evan Daniel wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Florent Daigniere
> > <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been doing some sysadmin tonight:
> > >        - re-enabled ipv6 on all services
> > >        - updated the DNS records (SPF, ...)
> > >        - deployed a valid certificate on postfix
> > >
> > > Let me know if I broke something.
> > >
> > > I was wondering, do we have any good reason not to switch the various 
> > > websites to HTTPS only? (with a 301 redirect on HTTP)
> > 
> > Awesome, thanks!
> > 
> > I'm in favor of https only. The only real arguments against it are
> > probably server cpu load. I assume that given our traffic levels,
> > that's not likely to be an issue?
> 
> When we get slashdotted, our server load can be rather high. And this is a 
> fairly low end VM we're running it off.
> > 

I don't think that CPU will ever be a problem for the kind of traffic we handle.

There's plenty of (other) optimizations to be made...

Florent

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