>>>>> "TM" == Tom Mornini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> 2) Better scalability. I've head (but never benchmarked) that SSL in
TM> general is 100 times more processor intensive than non-ssl connections.
TM> I want my mod_perl server running mod_perl, not mod_ssl! In a
TM> high-volume site you're going to have lots of front-end machines
TM> underworked anyway, so why not let them do some SSL calculations?
If you have a high volume site that uses SSL, you should really be
offloading the SSL processing to dedicated cryptography hardware.
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