Performance Tuning All SSL Webapps

Image from LoozrBoy In my last post, I talked about the benefits of going all SSL for a webapp.  There were plenty of benefits, not the least of which was securing your users’ data.  However, there still exists that one pesky drawback that prevents most of us...
To SSL or Not to SSL

To SSL or Not to SSL

Recently, I was forced to challenge a long-held notion about SSL: that the overhead was so significant that it ought to be used sparingly. I had held this belief for a long time, dating back to the preteen years of the web. The idea was that SSL caused a large...