CloudFlare enables Websockets for all accounts
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@Minion-Queen said in CloudFlare enables Websockets for all accounts:
@JaredBusch: Every decision we make here increases costs and also increases issues that we could have. Please remember that we are still very new and trying to bring in as much traffic from Google as possible to grow the community. Which will then interest more vendors which will allow us to spend more on infrastructure and so on.
Then as @scottalanmiller keeps preaching, if you are new, then you should be doing everything with modern tools and mentality. For anything web based, that means it should be SSL. Stop investing in technical debt.
To be clear not afraid of SSL if there is need. However we also have to remember that it must be used in a way that if fully bennifical for the community as a whole and yes that includes the Google giant and other marketing avenues. In order for this community to continue to grow we need new users and visitors. If we secure everything too much then well........ we wont get that.
From about 2 years ago, Google gives a higher rank to SSL pages.
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@JaredBusch said in CloudFlare enables Websockets for all accounts:
@Minion-Queen said in CloudFlare enables Websockets for all accounts:
@JaredBusch: Every decision we make here increases costs and also increases issues that we could have. Please remember that we are still very new and trying to bring in as much traffic from Google as possible to grow the community. Which will then interest more vendors which will allow us to spend more on infrastructure and so on.
Then as @scottalanmiller keeps preaching, if you are new, then you should be doing everything with modern tools and mentality. For anything web based, that means it should be SSL. Stop investing in technical debt.
To be clear not afraid of SSL if there is need. However we also have to remember that it must be used in a way that if fully bennifical for the community as a whole and yes that includes the Google giant and other marketing avenues. In order for this community to continue to grow we need new users and visitors. If we secure everything too much then well........ we wont get that.
From about 2 years ago, Google gives a higher rank to SSL pages.
Supposedly they are going to be adding the red x if you don't have HTTPS also.
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One other thing @Minion-Queen, I push this so hard because @scottalanmiller continually is making all of these excuses about performance or platform, or whatever. Yet even the NodeBB developers themselves run everything with SSL, and have for quite some time.
- Your users ask for it.
- The developers of the NodeBB run SSL for the main community.
- Clouflare supports websockets via SSL.
- Prior to CoudFlare supporting websockets, there was the choice to use a subdomain on its own SSL for websockets while the rest of the site was behind CloudFlare
- Start SSL is free and has been even when this community was started.
- Let's Encrypt now exists and is also free.
- Google has given search boost to SSL sites for 2 years
- Claims of performance issues are not substantiated to more than milliseconds based on research.
- Your users ask for it.
You know the one thing I have never actually seen posted even one time?
A user specifically asking that SSL be not enabled.
Sure many people have posted that they do not care. Or that they do not see the point in SSL on a public forum. But none of that is objection.
