Did you know that securing your website with HTTPS can increase your ranking in Google search results? Google announced on their Online Security Blog that their search algorithm now considers HTTPS a ranking signal when returning search results. HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is the foundation of communication on the Internet. However, it’s insecure because…
Continue reading ›NGINX SSL Performance
Update: This article uses benchmark figures produced in July 2014. More recent benchmarks (NGINX Sizing Guide, September 2016) use more recent hardware and OpenSSL implementations to provide more representative performance measurements. In particular, in the more recent benchmarks NGINX and NGINX Plus sustained over 2,000 SSL transactions per second per core, up to 16 cores (33k SSL TPS), using…
Continue reading ›SSL/TLS Offloading, Encryption, and Certificates with NGINX and NGINX Plus
NGINX and NGINX Plus provide a number of features that enable it to handle most SSL/TLS requirements. They use OpenSSL and the power of standard processor chips to provide cost‑effective SSL/TLS performance. As the power of standard processor chips continues to increase and as chip vendors add cryptographic acceleration support, the cost advantage of using standard processor…
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