Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead

Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by fexl on Monday July 11, 2011 @04:36PM (#2752413)

I've seen good results with the "pound" front-end:

http://www.apsis.ch/pound/

I haven't done extensive benchmarking on it, but very knowledgeable people vouch for it.

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by getsat on Monday July 11, 2011 @08:34PM (#2753068)

Pound consumes an absurd amount of memory if you have lots of concurrent connections (due to thread stacks).

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by fexl on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @10:04AM (#2754745)

Interesting, thanks -- I'll watch for that. Until now I haven't paid much attention to it since I'm not responsible for that part of the configuration.

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