SSL/HTTPS and performance
2018-08-08 00:46:20.087881+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Eric Meyer: Securing Web Sites Made Them Less Accessible:
In 2018? Yes. In rural Uganda, where I was improvising an introduction to web development for a class of vocational students, that’s the reality. They can have a computer lab full of Dell desktops running Windows or rows of Raspberry Pis running Ubuntu or whatever setup there is, but when satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit are your only source of internet, you wait. And wait. And wait.
On the other hand, at least this way they're getting Wikipedia and not whatever their local ISP decides to inject into Wikipedia...