hardware recommendations for HAProxy for a small or medium traffic site

I am interested in setting up HAProxy for use as a load balancer for a set of small traffic web applications. The use is growing and might become medium sized in the near term (6 months or so). Mainly we are looking balance load becuase some customers want their own dedicated server, some what to be as low cost as possible so to accomodate we seem to need a load balancer.

I looked at the HAProxy home and some of the blogs but they really dont get into the specifics or are huge sites using sun servers for the application

What kind of hardware and which distrobution would anyone recommend in terms of processor, memory, storage and distrobution are you using or would recommend for such an application?

thanks in advance

Solution 1:

Considering that HAProxy is just modifying the header of each packet that goes thorough it, you need just a powerful CPU. I'm running a HAProxy for a large website on a 3GB DDR3, 7200rpm HDD SATA and a Xeon E5450. You need some bandwidth for this because all the traffic will go thorough this server (even if you are using nat or route)