Save Money on Private SSL CDN and Improve Performance at the Same Time
SSL support in your site, and therefore, in your CDN is critical but it is also incredibly expensive. In this article, I'll show you how to save a fortune while improving the performance and security of your site.
It used to be that sites only encrypted the most sensitive traffic with their customers, i.e. registration, login, checkout, etc. In 2010, the Firesheep extension made it very clear that this is not enough.
Since then, many other attacks on partially encrypted sites have been devised and so major sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and others have all switched to HTTPS by default, aka Always On SSL. Last year, Google called for HTTPS everywhere and later, announced that secured sites will get boosts in PageRank.