Dave Winer en «Cómo terminé con más de 100 dominios»:
Later I got a little more sober about it. I was probably the only person who liked it. I created a web server called PagePark that made it easy to serve lots of domains from one machine, without any configuration. Just create a folder with the name of a domain in a specific place and the server would automatically route requests to the folder. It works. It’s proven a good way to evolve sites I created, with real content, specs, essays, blog posts, feeds, JSON files, images, outlines, movies, podcasts, music, wire photos, all the things I have experimented with and created standards for over the years. It’s a mess, but I kept good notes. If anyone wants to see my work, it’s all there. But it’s never going to make it to HTTPS unless it gets a lot simpler, and we know that can’t happen because it’s inherently a complicated and fragile thing.
Now of course Google never considered the possibility that someone might be doing this. And there are probably are many other things they didn’t think of that people did or are doing. Remember HTTP isn’t just any protocol, it’s certainly the most widely used networking protocol ever. It’s the protocol that made networking explode.
Las negritas las he puesto yo. La semana pasada anduve de vacaciones y conmigo me llevé un par de libros, entre ellos el último de Belén Gopegui, y que visto lo visto puede que también pudiese gustar a Dave Winer.
Es posible que con la explosión de Let’s Encrypt, que según comenta Víctor en los foros va a facilitar aún más la gestión a partir de enero, la migración de toda la web a HTTPS no parezca tan trágica como al principio. Pero lo cierto es que en la relativa complejidad de su gestión hay una barrera no desdeñable.

