<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Tom Pohl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com">tom@tcpconsulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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That being said, there are other good products out there that can do SSL acceleration / load balancing based appliances like Kemp Technologies loadmasters that can ease some of these issues.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>I think I'm going to have to look into one of those when my current project gets serious enough.</div><div><br></div><div>Using ab on localhost to a light-weight php file:</div><div><br></div><div> Requests per second: 2715.35 [#/sec] (mean)</div>
<div><br></div><div>When accessing the same file via SSL:</div><div><br></div><div><div> Requests per second: 10.18 [#/sec] (mean)</div></div><div><br></div><div>(and server load starts to climb) :-(</div><div><br></div>
<div>If I use EC2 for my servers then I can use their load balancer for $18 /mo which will offload the SSL for me. That seems like a pretty cheap solution, what do you think?</div></div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
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