Can anyone give me a ballpark idea of the performance impact of SLL versus a normal http connection? It's my understanding that most people only protect pages where sensitive information is sent (passwords, CC info, etc.) because of the performance impact, but I've also seen where for ASP.NET it's sometimes a good idea to protect the entire site so that the membership cookie isnever sent in the clear. Would there really be a visible performance hit for a relatively low traffic site? Also, what's the word on the GoDaddy certs? I couldn't find anything on their site to confirm it, but I suspect they're chained. Anyone know for sure?
You shouldn't experience any noticeable performance degradation with SSL. GoDaddy certificates are chained, and there are other potential problems with them as well. We recommend using a single-root certificate. See: http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10479 mjp DiscountASP.NET <SUB><SUP>http://DiscountASP.NET
Servers and Network are so fast nowaday, HTTPS performance degrade is a thing of the past in my opinion. Bruce DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback. I always like to check on supposed "performance degradations" before automatically assuming I have to worry about them. Half the time when someone talks about performance impacts, they're talking about a few ms difference which may impact a tight loop, but if just aone-hit in a data entry form really doesn't matter a bit.
