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by eli 5712 days ago
The overhead of running your webserver itself of SSL isn't that huge a deal. But it usually means you also need to load all images and static assets off a HTTPS server, which makes things a bit more complicated than just throwing them on a cheap CDN. And, of course, using HTTPS means you skip any caching proxies that are between you and the user.