Since I have moved off of CDN hosting and onto a VPS and have more control over the tech stack, I decided to go ahead and set up HTTP/2. It only took a few minutes including research and implementation.
I was already running NGINX on Debian with TLS enabled. NGINX’s
stable branch currently has version 1.8, and we need 1.9, so we have to change
our apt sources from
deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ jessie nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ jessie nginx
to
deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ jessie nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ jessie nginx
Next we look for any TLS listeners—I’m not bothering with non-TLS since it just
redirects to the secure version—and add http2. Here is a truncated example
that leaves out things like certificate and file location configurations.
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name www.thisoneplace.com;
}
Restart the server and you’re done. (Reloading might also work, but I restarted so I can’t say for sure.)