Mark,
Don't know if its worthwhile: www.rainbow.com offers a PCI card for a.o. SSL
encryption. Maybe take can
take away the encryption burden from the server.
I've have no experiences with the card. I ran into it on a fair.
Frank
On Monday, September 25, 2000 7:32 PM, Mark Delanoy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> We actually have two web sites with the session state shared. One's the
> secure version and the other is the normal version. They point to the same
> directories and code. It really a mapping issue. However they are
> distinctly different sites as far as Orion is concerned. So if you do any
> caching of static items they will get loaded twice, one per site. So we do
> a lot static singleton classes that have our caches, making the data
> available throughout the JVM once.
>
> There's a performance hit the first time you navigate to the first SSL
> protected page but after that it gets better.
>
> We haven't done measurements yet (that will be soon) but it is noticeably
> slower running in SSL. Makes sense due to the computation efforts envolved
> with encryption and all the CPU cycles stolen to handle the security.
>
> So for best practices we try to SSL as little as possible to keep a high
> throughput on the Web server.
>
> So it sounds like you have a similar problem as we had so this solution
> should help you.
>
> MD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Duffey, Kevin
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 10:34 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: SSL - Only a few pages need SSL, does that slow things down?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Seeing all this SSL talk has me wondering a bit...we only have 3 pages right
> now that use the HTTPS protocol. The other 200+ are just HTTP. If we have
> Orion use SSL does it take any noticeable hit on the rest of the pages that
> are not using SSL? I just want to make sure that before we go production
> with our clustered SSL Orion setup, it isn't going to come to a crawl
> because a few pages are using SSL. I haven't read much on how to get SSL to
> work yet, but it seems to me as if the whole server goes in to SSL mode if
> you use it. Is this the case..or is it only pages that use SSL that are
> slow, the rest being unscathed by the SSL mode?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
