Last updated Feb 03, 2026 at 03:12am

I logged into tumblr today for the first time in two years, and noticed none of our cursors or images were working. After some digging, I noticed that tumblr is forcing all static images and files to redirect to https web address.

So I installed LetsEncrypt. However it's superslow compared to a normal http protocol. I am trying to figure out how to improve the speed. The website serves millions of files a day, I think it will be bad for the server (Just change DNS, so don't know the full impact yet). Leave a comment if you know how to speed up LetsEncrypt over NGINX web server.

Also all cursor codes have been updated to include https. Also this site does not have HTTPS yet. There were problems when I tried to implement this years ago. The file servers will be SSL for now, but the main site will not.