[cmer]

You get my upvote. I had never heard of this before. Definitely interesting and something to keep in mind nowadays.

[taligent]

I know I only stumbled it across it recently. It's strange because as SPDY takes off SSL is going to be a critical part of the overall performance.

Apparently AES-NI is also available in version Xen 4.0+ for VPS users as well. Something to ask your VPS provider.