On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Shawn Heisey <hapr...@elyograg.org> wrote: > 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 >
Shawn, could you define what you mean by "heavy" ? What type of web application do you host? How many req / conn per second do you expect? When doing SSL, the CPU is not enough, the memory also matters. Baptiste
