Re: SSL acceleration for a web farm

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Peter Mueller wrote:

> If Ryan's traffic is primarily SSL then using a few hardware accelerators
> makes a lot of sense.  If it is a normal mix of port 80 and 443 then it
> probably does not.  Having done some tests in the past I can tell you for a
> certainty that SSL accelerators can be very cost effective in the right
> situation.
It just sounds like a few more points of failure to me.  Course I have never
really been a big fan of SSL accelerators.