What should be my goal when buying hardware for haproxy if I am planning to secure everything with TLS/SSL terminated by haproxy? Due to customer requirements, many of the back-end connections will also be encrypted.
Other than getting the latest processor architecture I can find at the highest possible clock speed, what should I be looking for in a CPU/motherboard combo? It will most likely be Dell server hardware because it is priced well and rackmounts easily. I would really prefer a 1U rack server with hardware redundancy to a beige box, but if a beige box would hit the requirements a lot better, I would consider that route. One specific thing that I am wondering about is running haproxy with multiple processes. Is that well-supported and stable config (especially for SSL), or should I be looking for a CPU with a higher clock speed but a smaller number of cores, and run single-process? I already know from other discussions that reporting and monitoring is not as straightforward with multiple processes. Thanks, Shawn
