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by stephen_g 4331 days ago
Nope!

Google, from 2010: "On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead."

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...

Entropy is a different matter, but I believe pretty much all virtualisation platforms have ways to ensure the VMs have enough entropy sources - so it should be fine.