HAProxy, despite the name :), is extremely simple to set up and manage, once you understand the basics. I'd recommend giving it a shot, you can always switch to Amazon EC2, do you have to make your decision before you try either?
I got SSL up and running a few months ago with the 1.5 dev branch and it took me only a few hours to get it right, that's including getting the certs. I was actually going to write a blog post specifically on SSL SNI and offloading, soon, however doing a google search you should be able to find existing help on the subject. I used EC2 for a while, and eventually left due to it's incomprehensible slowness. Both in the network and on the server itself. Combined with it's costs. If you have even a little sysadmin blood in you, I recommend using HAProxy. If you want to be completely hands-off, well then I think it would have less to do with whether HAProxy is easy or not, and just that you don't want to have to deal with maintenance, which is a fair way to go as well, just depends on what you really want. Cheers Nick On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, S Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sad to say, but I'm sort of weary of administoring haproxy for some > reason. > > To the point that almost the ONLY reason I am leaning towards going with > amazon (ec2) is because they have an easy to use firewall/security group > feature, and also built in load balancing. > > But ofcourse I hate the performance issues that come with virtualization. > > I'm just nervious of a few things: > > 1. setting up ssl with haproxy > 2. general uptime/administration of haproxy > > I'm not that good when it comes to networking and understanding tcpip. > > Is this somethign I can pickup fairly quickly? > How much hand holding does a haproxy server take?
