Re: What are the costs of SSL on a custom domain?

[Jon Stevens]

Hi Peter,

Please be the 31st person to star this issue: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7932

For now, consider using CloudFlare. While they haven't been 100% reliable (neither has AppEngine for that matter), they do offer great pricing and overall I'm happy enough with them to stick with them.

=)

jon

On Friday, September 14, 2012 3:21:32 AM UTC-7, Peter Armitage wrote:

I don't have a strong understanding of the technology behind SNI/VIP, but I am confused why it costs $120/$1200 per year to enable HTTPS on a custom domain. Are there significant infrastructure costs Google has to make to support this? Does it have to buy IPv4 address space? 

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.html claims that the cost isn't in the CPU or network: "On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead."

Why do SSL slots only come in packs of 5?

Thanks