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

Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by greglindahl on Monday July 11, 2011 @05:06PM (#2752521)

For a different point of view, check out:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090619214443/http://www.o3magaz...

The author benchmarks nginx at 26,590 TPS on a quad-core 2.5 ghz amd system.

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by mleonhard on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @03:34AM (#2753879)

I suspect that they are re-using connections in that benchmark. SSL connection setup is CPU intensive. Once a session is set up, an SSL connection uses only slightly more CPU time than an unencrypted connection.

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by spydum on Monday July 11, 2011 @07:19PM (#2752878)

That benchmark is using an SSL Accelerator card and nginx. Can honestly say I have seen very few people swing for SSL Accelerator cards.

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by greglindahl on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:23PM (#2753172)

The "open source SSL Accelerator" mentioned in the blog posting is a quad-core server running Linux and nginx.

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Re:Nginx sucks at SSL, here's what to do instead by spydum on Monday July 11, 2011 @09:40PM (#2753198)

whoops! my apologies -- the capitalized "SSL Accelerator" set my mind into thinking dedicated hardware device.

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