# SSL enabled slowing down site

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-enabled-slowing-down-site/226173>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [December 16, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-enabled-slowing-down-site/226173 "2010-12-16T04:57:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![fanboy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ce73a5/32.png) [@fanboy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fanboy)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ssl-enabled-slowing-down-site/226173/1 "2010-12-16T04:57:28Z")

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Using 0.9.3 (compiled), if I enable the SSL lines then :80 traffic slows  
down (as does SSL traffic), remove the SSL lines and everything is  
quicker… Looking through my config, am I doing anything wrong or can it  
be improved?

```auto
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;

error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;

#pid logs/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    include mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    #log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
"$request" '
    # '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    # '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log logs/access.log main;

    sendfile on;
    #tcp_nopush on;
    keepalive_timeout 40;

    gzip on;

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;

        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log logs/host.access.log main;

        location / {
            root /var/www;
            index index.html index.htm index.php;
        }

        #error_page 404 /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root html;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        }

  }

   server {
        server_name secure.fanboy.co.nz;
        listen 443;
        ssl on;
        ssl_ciphers RC4:ALL:-LOW:-EXPORT:!ADH:!MD5;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        keepalive_requests 280;
        keepalive_timeout 0;
        ssl_certificate /root/server.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /root/ssl.key;

           location / {
                root /var/www;
                index index.html index.htm index.php;
            }

        }

}

```

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> **[SSL enabled slowing down site..](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,159017,159017#msg-159017)**
>
> Using 0.9.3 (compiled), if I enable the SSL lines then :80 traffic slows down (as does SSL traffic), remove the SSL lines and everything is quicker.. Looking through my config, am I doing anything wrong or can it be improved? \[code\] #user nobody;...