Thanks for that piece of advice. I just went and found and followed this: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/

Thanks for that piece of advice. I just went and found and followed this: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html and gained a noticeable speed improvement on nginx. Here's the nginx module docs, for completeness: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule