I can recommend HAProxy based on my experiences. If you want to go with established tech over newer stuff (and the Nginx websocket support is definitely too ne

I can recommend HAProxy based on my experiences. If you want to go with established tech over newer stuff (and the Nginx websocket support is definitely too new for me - give it another 6 months at least), then you can Rube Goldberg a fun setup with Stunnel and Varnish replacing HAProxy. http://www.exratione.com/2012/08/websockets-over-ssl-stunnel-varnish-nginx-nodejs/ http://www.exratione.com/2012/08/websockets-over-ssl-stunnel... I haven't had any unpleasant happenings myself with clustering Socket.IO and Redis; that'd be a topic I'd like to see a post on from your lot, given that I'm presently working on the cluster code for a demi-framework for clustered single page Node/Socket apps: https://github.com/exratione/thywill https://github.com/exratione/thywill