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Build an Open Source SSL Accelerator

Posted by timothy on from the macguyver-it-up dept.

Amin Zelfani writes "SSL accelerators like Big-IP 6900 from F5 Networks typically carry a $50k or more price tag. An article over at o3magazine.com shows you how to build an SSL accelerator that's on par with the commercial solutions, using Open Source projects. SSL Accelerators offload the encryption / decryption process from web servers, reducing load and reducing the number of certificates needed."

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  1. Tangental question... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    At the moment I have two OpenBSD servers acting as a single firewall infront of two IIS6 Windows 2003 R2 servers - the OpenBSD servers are acting as an Apache2 reverse proxy for IIS. Only one of the IIS6 servers is 'live' at any one time, the second is the spare.

    Currently, the setup has an automatic failover for the OpenBSD servers via CARP, which works great. However, the IIS servers are currently limited to manual failover, they cant use MS Network Load Balancing because I need session based balancing, and not just IP based balancing.

    Can anyone recommend an easy way to implement session based failover? I took a look at Nginx before settling on Apache simply because the Nginx documentation was terrible, and also very highly 'you already know the product' orientated.