Switching to HTTP2 performance concerns

Alec Dean

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Hi...

I'm considering switching to http2, but not all of my hosting customers are on https yet and I also still have a few that have not updated their PHP version to 7.x. I just want to be sure that their websites will negotiate http1 with requesting browsers and that enabling http2 won't impact their site's performance in any way.

Thanks!
 

DennisMidjord

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We've been using HTTP/2 with LiteSpeed for a long time now, and it hasn't caused any problems. If a site doesn't use SSL, it will serve the website over HTTP/1.1.

I don't know how it works with Apache, but I'd guess it's similar.
 

cPanelMichael

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Hello,

The previous post is correct. HTTP2 is only utilized when accessing the site using SSL (https://).

Thank you.