Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 8:56AM Warning, this post is a bit vendor FUDy, but SSL is an important topic and it does bring up some issues worth arguing about. Hacker News has a good discussion of the article. Adam Langley started it all with his article Overclocking SSL and has made a rebuttal to the F5 article in Still not computationally expensive.
Friday, June 5, 2009 at 12:06AM Hi all!
So nice to start discussing cool things in this even cooler forum :)
I am having a problem .. which i believe is already solved but i would love someone confirming actual experience with the same topic.
We are building a client / server architecture, consisting of a web server part and many clients.
Transport will be provided as either XML-RPC / SOAP / JSON or all at once.
All of the communication has to be encrypted and passed within SSL3.
We expect a high load when the application starts (> 2000 concurrent requests).
Combine this with xml parsing for the rpc api, things really look ugly :)
So it's a big mess :)
It will not be that much database bound behind the api - mostly files will be transferred from the server to the clients and simple api for control.
So it's pretty much a matter of 'what-to-do-with-ssl'.
I was thinking of hardware - NetApp or a similar application accelerator.
Can anyone give examples of a hardware piece that combines: Load balancer / SSL accelerator?
I have also been reading about open source software Load Balancers but i really doubt it would meet the needs. Anyone having the same experience (or had) ? :)
Thanks, all!
