Dan Ritter:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 09:50:15PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>>
>> Admittedly, one of the main issues with HTTPS is the number of
>> handshakes your hardware can do per second. That probably isn't a
>> problem for the CD image download server that we are discussing here.
>> But for (non-distributed) sites that serve a huge number of requests
>> (think tens of thousands of requests per second) and (unlike Google) use
>> off-the-shelf hardware and software that's a different issue. I am
>> working on such a site and our customer has to spend big bucks for our
>> load balancers (F5 BIG IP) which terminate SSL connections in our
>> environment.
>
> In my experience, the majority of people buying F5's load balancers
> are doing so because they don't have the expertise on staff to do
> configuration management of commodity Linux boxes running either an ipvs
> based system like ldirector or a user-mode loadbalancer like haproxy.
That may very well be the case. I don't work for the hosting provider, I
am in development. ;-)
J.
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