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Re:HTTPS Adoption doubled this year by themartorana on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:19PM (#12148185)
Yes, all this. Although it drives me nuts that people consider SSL to be a deterrent to load times when the average page is as bloated as it is...

But yeah, LetsEncrypt made SSL free, and for us, AWS's free auto-renewing certificates were the thing that made it easy to not have to worry about certificates anymore and to use them gratuitously.

Edit: looking forward to all the Dreamhosts of the world making LetsEncrypt-based SSL standard on even their cheapest plans.

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Re:HTTPS Adoption doubled this year by sliverstorm on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:24PM (#12148195)
Agreed, the main reason most pages are slow these days is because they are slow- blaming it on SSL is pure scapegoating
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Re:HTTPS Adoption doubled this year by orionstein on Saturday July 23, 2016 @10:57AM (#12149643)
AWS is what I use personally, and their certificate service is a breeze to use. Couple that with the ability to attach the certificate directly to the load balancer (one of the best features of the LB, in my mind), or to a Cloudfront distribution, and it's amazingly simple to have everything running with SSL.
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