Your config snippet does not say a thing about how your server(s) handle
HTTP and HTTPS.
Do they serve the same content the same way?
Where are performance details (including network trace)?
---
*B. R.*

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:04 PM, rafaelr <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find answers to a problem that I'm currently experiencing in
> all my servers. Downloads offered over HTTPS are at least 4 times slower
> than those delivered over HTTP. All these servers are running nginx/1.6.2.
> Here is my nginx.conf in case someone have experienced something similar
> and
> could give me a hint. By the way, when I say 4 x slower I'm being
> optimistic... I can download 4-5MB/s over HTTP while https download are
> 600-700kb/s the fastest I've seen.
>
> user www-data;
> worker_processes 2;
> pid /run/nginx.pid;
> worker_rlimit_nofile 4096;
>
> events {
> worker_connections 1024;
> multi_accept on;
> use epoll;
> }
>
> http {
>
> # SSL Configuration
> ###################
> ssl_buffer_size 8k;
> ssl_session_cache shared:SSL_CACHE:20m;
> ssl_session_timeout 4h;
> ssl_session_tickets on;
> ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
> ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXP:!LOW:!RC2:!3DES:!SEED:!RC4:+HIGH:+MEDIUM;
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
>
>
> # Custom Settings
> #################
>
> open_file_cache max=10000 inactive=20s;
> open_file_cache_valid 30s;
> open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
> open_file_cache_errors on;
> charset UTF-8;
>
> client_body_buffer_size 128K;
> client_header_buffer_size 1k;
> client_max_body_size 25m;
> large_client_header_buffers 4 8k;
>
> fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
> fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
> fastcgi_read_timeout 120s;
>
> client_body_timeout 20;
> client_header_timeout 20;
> keepalive_timeout 25;
> send_timeout 20;
> reset_timedout_connection on;
>
>
> # Basic Settings
> ################
>
> sendfile on;
> tcp_nopush on;
> tcp_nodelay on;
> types_hash_max_size 2048;
> server_tokens off;
>
> server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
> server_name_in_redirect off;
>
> include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
> default_type application/octet-stream;
>
>
> # Logging Settings
> ##################
>
> access_log off;
> error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
>
>
> # Gzip Settings
> ###############
>
> gzip on;
> #gzip_disable "msie6";
> gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
> gzip_vary on;
> gzip_proxied any;
> gzip_comp_level 5;
> gzip_buffers 16 8k;
> gzip_http_version 1.1;
> gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json
> application/x-javascript
> text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript
> application/javascript;
>
>
> # Virtual Host Configs
> ######################
>
> include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
> include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
> }
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,256386,256386#msg-256386
>
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