The RC4 choice seems fishy, especially considering how easy it is to get hardware-accelerated AES these days. If you want to use weak encryption, why use encryption at all?
Why do we keep hearing about mod_ssl overclocking? Have any of you overclocked your Cassandra lately? what about your Apache? Does MySQL have a multiplier that can be tweaked with? Or voltage settings on the BIOS?<p>"Yeah dude, I water cool my SSL. Look at those dark blue LEDs glow."