I needed to use SSL on nginx and got great results from following a number of pieces of advice. I jotted down my noted here: http://auxbuss.com/blog/posts/2011_

I needed to use SSL on nginx and got great results from following a number of pieces of advice. I jotted down my noted here: http://auxbuss.com/blog/posts/2011_06_28_ssl_session_caching_on_nginx/ http://auxbuss.com/blog/posts/2011_06_28_ssl_session_caching... It made a significant performance difference to me.