I have an application that uses SSL for client certificates and Mason
under mod_perl. It seems like this isn't going to scale as well as I'd
hoped. The unit is not underpowered:
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (mostly 99% idle)
2GB RAM
So my question is this (since I cannot find an SSL accelerator
applicance for < $2000):
1) Do I run a stripped down Apache to handle the SSL only and proxy that
to the mod_perl instance? On this or another box?
2) Do I get one of the SSL accelerator cards (the Broadcom cards can be
had for < $300)?
3) The system load is low, but the user time seems to be slower than I'd
expect; should I load VMWare server and run multiple instances sharing
the same disk?
4) Which book on tuning Apache [esp. for SSL] would you recommend?
TIA
John
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John Peacock
Director of Information Research and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
4501 Forbes Boulevard
Suite H
Lanham, MD 20706
301-459-3366 x.5010
fax 301-429-5748
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