Matthew Petach wrote:
I'm sure when Gmail gets close to the same number of users as Yahoo, they will discover how challenging and painful it is to support that many simultaneous short-lived SSL connections. It's much easier to support CPU intensive tasks like full-time SSL when you have a small user base; as that user base grows, the cost of providing that service continues to grow, often outpacing the revenue benefit it brings.
You're aware that certain chips, such as the UltraSparc T1 and T2 chips, have on-board SSL acceleration functions that impose virtually zero penalty on SSL encryption (though I suppose that setup/teardown is handled by the main CPU)?
--Patrick
