<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Let's be clear about this. Back in 1995 when we were using sun4m and P90s with 16mb of RAM, SSL was a problem. More than 100 SSL users and the machine would suffer a bit.<div><br></div><div>Do you have 10-year old machines? Do you have more than 100 concurrent users? (at the same time?)</div><div><br></div><div>If both of these aren't true, you won't have any problems with SSL trust me ;-) My personal colo box is a bit outdated -- it's 1.67g with 1gig of RAM, and it is currently handling 200-250 concurrent SSL sessions without breaking 2% CPU.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Eliezer E Chávez wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">CPU Time, with ssl i'm going to expend so much machine resources...<br><br>Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmoseley@corp.xanadoo.com">jmoseley@corp.xanadoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The easiest thing for you to do is have the entire site in SSL. 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