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HTTPS CDN

Even regular site visitors know what HTTPS is and how important it is to their internet browsing. Aside from ensuring customer safety, HTTPS can also boost page ranking and functionalities. One of the issues that you have to face in having an HTTPS site is that you need to link all resources over it, as well. Fortunately, many providers offer various options when it comes to its delivery.

Netscape invented Secure HTTP (HTTPS) in the 1990s. It combines TLS, an encryption protocol, and HTTP, a communications protocol, to secure and encrypt communications on the internet. For at least two decades, HTTPS has been the standard used by banking and e-commerce sites. Due to the announcement by Google that websites using HTTPS would get better PageRank, more website owners now consider it.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Using HTTPS

For internet connections, let’s identify two benefits of HTTPS:

1. Channel encryption makes it impractical and challenging for a third party to eavesdrop on communications.
2. Server identification prevents the impersonation of a trusted server. This trickery employed by unscrupulous individuals often dupes the client to send sensitive information. Moreover, it stops the sending of misleading information from impersonators. A Certification Authority presents certification to the server to signify that the server owner is also the owner of the accessed domain.

Browsers display a green lock in the address bar to notify clients that they’re accessing a secure connection. A secure page means that all its assets are also on HTTPs. Some browsers may block non-secure resources, and the address bar lock may show a warning sign or appear gray. Using HTTPS CDN means that all resources are secure.

Like everything and anything, HTTPS also has its disadvantages. One, it takes more time to open a secure connection than an ordinary HTTP. It needs to make numerous round trips to do the encryption handshake and authenticate the server certificate. However, HTTPS CDN can address some of the latency issues by consolidating connections through HTTP/2.

Why HTTPS Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Important

Many website owners use HTTPS on their website because they want to secure it for their users, avoid browser warnings, and for search engine ranking. However, performance is still the top priority for user engagement and search engine optimizations. If you have a website, you can achieve both goals through a content delivery network (CDN). Without it, your HTTPS deployment will be slow.

Although TLS has been fast, a new client still needs to make at least two round trips to begin loading a page. Although the TTFB with TLS isn’t everything, it’s still significant in loading a page. Moreover, it seems that Google PageRank uses it as a signal for performance. Using HTTPS Content Delivery Network fixes this issue by reducing the network hops and distance between the point of TLS termination and the client.

Webpages have tons of other assets and elements that must be on HTTPS too to prevent any mixed content warning. Thus, the round-trip time adds to the time needed to load a page. For instance, if someone from Singapore is loading a site with TLS-terminated in New York, the client needs to make simultaneous connections if the page has 35 other assets. Therefore, it will take time for a page to render from the person’s end.

How CDN Can Help

By deploying HTTPS CDN, we reduce the distance and number of trips between the client and server. Instead of connecting to the origin server, the browser connects to a POP instead. This POP cuts the various round trips and turns requests into one-way trips to the server; thus, dropping off any relevant delay and filling up the client’s connection.

With the POP, the HTTPS negotiation with the client takes only once, and all resources use the same link. The CDN POP sustains the connections to the origin; thus, reducing numerous round trips. With careful performance tuning on the front-end, the page loads from anywhere around the globe.

How Can BelugaCDN Help You

BelugaCDN is one of a few providers that support all five TLS extensions, namely, Perfect Forward Secrecy, ALPN, Dynamic Record Sizing, OCSP Stapling, and HTTP/2). It provides the optimal choice if you want to secure your assets with HTTPS and boost your content delivery. It works similar to Stackpath and Amazon CloudFront in accelerating the delivery of website content through a global cloud.

One of its significant advantages over the other providers is that it offers affordable CDN that small-scale website owners will discover to be inexpensive. BelugaCDN ensures that everyone can access content, using any device faster. Moreover, the company has a minimum of 15 years’ experience in leveraging new technologies and operating high-performance networks. Website owners who avail of BelugaCDN services will discover that they can cancel at any time because the subscription is monthly without long-term contacts.

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