[AusNOG] Experiences with web load balancers

[David Hughes]

The point is that you offload the SSL to a box that has dedicated crypto asics rather than passing it onto a server that tries to do the math with a general purpose CPU.  Your servers will thank you for it.


David
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On 22/02/2010, at 2:20 PM, Simon Horman wrote:

> BTW, I have never understood why anyone would want to use SSL offloading,
> surely its better to push must surely be the most CPU intensive part
> of a connection as far out to the edge as possible. Is the issue
> that its cheaper to by certificates that way? Not baiting, genuinely curious.