https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52253

--- Comment #8 from Nemo <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> The reason you need more servers is because serving HTTPS is more expensive
> than serving HTTP, because of the encryption overhead. You could have the
> same
> servers doing both HTTP and HTTPS, and I believe that is indeed the plan, but
> you would still need more servers because the CPU cost of serving an HTTPS
> connection is higher, so you need more cores to do the same connection rate.

Didn't Google produce stats claiming that the CPU cost was basically
negligible?

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