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At first glance this looks like a site that should be easily cacheable, at least for non-logged-in users.

Also, I'm surprised this isn't using HTTPS.

Welcome to the web of 2004. It was a magical place full of uncached PHP applications, raw exposed MySQL servers, and nary an SSL cert in sight.

You could easily take a server that has not been upgraded since 2004 and put it behind a reverse proxy (e.g. Apache) that gives it a SSL with up-to-date crypto.

>You could easily take a server that has not been upgraded since 2004 and put it behind a reverse proxy (e.g. Apache) that gives it a SSL with up-to-date crypto.

You sure could. You could also run it as a flat file CMS hosted across multiple fallback cloud storage providers and cached out to a global edge CDN.

But that’s web scale. The internet used to be human scale.

What I'm describing just requires a single web server like Apache, with less than half a dozen lines of config to delegate a certain page or domain to the old server via reverse proxying. Did you see the word "reverse proxy" and start thinking about CloudFare and such?

Yes, but it makes up for the lack of HTTPS by using plain text passwords.

/s

(Sorry, I initially forgot the sarcasm indicator.)

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