Ask HN: What do you use for SSL load balancing?

You're probably thinking of 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.

Ah, thanks! That was it.

What 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?

To offload the SSL processing.

I 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.

There is stunnel (www.stunnel.org).