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Ask HN: What do you use for SSL load balancing?
There are the usual suspects: nginx, Apache, F5 etc. But I would like to know what has worked out the best for you and why.
I also seem to remember a startup posting on HN about how they built a lightweight(ish) SSL proxy specifically to terminate SSL connections but can not remember the name for the life of me so I would appreciate any help if anyone else on HN remembers.
- pedoh 15y agoThere is stunnel (www.stunnel.org).
- arete 15y agoYou're probably thinking of stud (https://github.com/bumptech/stud https://github.com/bumptech/stud). Haven't tried it but looks great on paper! I currently run FreeBSD clusters with pf and varnish for load balancing, so relayd is my choice for SSL.
- newman314 15y agoAh, thanks! That was it.
- anthony_franco 15y agoI handle it in nginx with the SSL Module. Haven't implemented it in other servers. But with nginx it was set it and forget it.
- iSloth 15y agoWhat is the purpose of this, to offload the SSL processing to the "load balancer" appliance/software? Or just to find a load balancer that has support for SSL traffic?
- newman314 15y agoTo offload the SSL processing.