>Maybe file serving can be hardware accelerated Encryption aside a lot of file serving is accelerated. In Linux, apache has just called a kernel function (I fo

>Maybe file serving can be hardware accelerated Encryption aside a lot of file serving is accelerated. In Linux, apache has just called a kernel function (I forget what it's called, something unsurprisingly along the lines of socket_sendfile) to get data out on the wire, and that function itself is hardware accelerated by the network hardware through the large send offload v1 & v2 functions offered by the network card driver.