Daz's bits and bobs …bytes bits
I just moved my wordpress site to http2 (via https). Some advice on steps to moving your site ;
While setting up SSL reverse proxy using lets encrypt and nginx i had a few troubles with testing via googles Chrome browser.
The easiest thing to do during testing is use incognito mode. You will not need to clear the cache every time you change config or re-issue certificates.
I’ve been a fan of HTTP and caching since my dial-up modem.
Skip to today where google returns HTTPS sites higher in its search results. Its could also be possible that you cannot trust a man in the middle HTTP cache any longer either right? :)
SSL certs have traditionally been expensive, but say welcome to lets encrypt which provides a free way of securing all of your websites. If you haven’t heard of it check it out here – https://letsencrypt.org/
As always i’ve implemented my LetsEncrypt trial via docker. The container image i have been using has been put together by the linuxserver guys – https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/letsencrypt/
(i use a few of their container images, they seem legit)
This container image comes ready to roll with Nginx built in which can act as a reverse proxy to your unsecured websites at the back-end. I’ll be testing it for the next few days to see how it stacks up, but so far so good. Nginx is fast, so a good transition if only to offload all my SSL traffic. If all goes well it will be the end of my squid reverse proxy which i have used happily for many years.
In the past http had the performance, certs were too difficult (but are they?) and expensive to implement and i was a fan of my sites being cached. New times are here, SSL (TLS) rules supreme.
On another note, HTTP 1 sites are dwindling, SPDY didnt last long but apparently some of that has been built into HTTP/2 – exciting!
Check out these links for some interesting reading on performance –
https://samrueby.com/2015/01/26/why-is-https-faster-than-http/
http://www.httpvshttps.com/
Handy link for testing if your site is using HTTP2 – https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
Assuming you have docker running at home, check out these two docker projects – one is the cache (powered by nginx), the other is the dns servcie (which intercepts steam calls)
When you have all three up and running you can confirm HITS to the cache by running the following against the steamcache container;
docker exec -it steamcache tail -f /data/logs/access.log
This is great if you have a gaming cafe or LAN over at your house on occasion, all steam games will be cached to local disk so that your internet pipe gets a break. ;)
Update 15/10/2018
Update 1/11/2018
if your working with Ubuntu in lab or test env, you may want to disable firewall…. two simple commands;
sudo ufw disable
sudo apt-get remove ufw
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ufw 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. After this operation, 838 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 64052 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ufw (0.35-0ubuntu2) ... Skip stopping firewall: ufw (not enabled) Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
