Comment by nodesocket

SSL stapling can reduce the overhead as well, simple nginx config:

  http {
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/stapling.trusted.crt;
    resolver 8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8 valid=300s;
    resolver_timeout 15s;
  }

We https://commando.io use GoDaddy SSL (sigh, face-palm), so the contents of stapling.trusted.crt is:

   http://pastebin.com/0H0i09Pn