diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/proxies b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
index c04531a579..5b0a25feef 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/proxies
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ num_cpus: 6
 # This is used in the httpd.conf to determine the value for serverlimit and
 # maxrequestworkers. On 8gb proxies, 900 seems fine. But on 4gb proxies, this
 # should be lowered in the host vars for that proxy.
-maxrequestworkers: 900
+maxrequestworkers: 1500
 
 tcp_ports: [
     # For apache, generally.
diff --git a/roles/httpd/proxy/templates/httpd.conf.j2 b/roles/httpd/proxy/templates/httpd.conf.j2
index 00947131f0..5b1e0debf3 100644
--- a/roles/httpd/proxy/templates/httpd.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/httpd/proxy/templates/httpd.conf.j2
@@ -773,3 +773,5 @@ EnableSendfile on
 
 # Configure a location for OCSP stapling
 SSLStaplingCache shmcb:/tmp/stapling_cache(128000)
+SSLSessionCache         shmcb:/run/httpd/sslcache(10240000)
+SSLSessionCacheTimeout  600