Massive slowdown adding ssl to my nginx configuration (running Ubuntu 12.04)

You are fine with the package but if you get more traffic in your website definitely you will need a bigger DO package. Here the website loads in a second, try clearing your browser history, cache etc.

Hi Marinos, <br> <br>I am actually benchmarking using pingdom’s tools. They ping my server every minute, so my average values are over a few days and there is definitely an increase in time. <br> <br>Do you have any tips for how I could reduce the response time without going for a bigger DO package?

Give something like this a try (customizing to suit your setup) <br> <br>server { <br> listen 80; <br> listen 443 ssl spdy; <br> server_name example.com; <br> root /path/to/files; <br> index index.html index.htm index.php; <br> <br> location / { <br> try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; <br> expires max; <br> } <br> <br> if ($https != “on”) { <br> return 301 https://$host$uri; <br> } <br> <br> ssl on; <br> spdy_headers_comp 9; <br> ssl_stapling on; <br> resolver 8.8.8.8 <br> 8.8.4.4 valid=3600s; <br> resolver_timeout 4s; <br> ssl_stapling_verify on; <br> ssl_session_timeout 5m; <br> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; <br> ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:60m; <br> ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; <br> add_header Strict-Transport-Security “max-age=31536000”; <br> ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDH-ECDSA-RC4-SHA:ECDH-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA; <br> <br> ssl_certificate /path/to/certificate.crt; <br> ssl_trusted_certificate /path/to/ca.crt; <br> ssl_certificate_key /path/to/key.key; <br>}