Large-Scale SOCKS5 Proxy Infrastructure Setup

I want to roll out a fresh, large-scale pool of 51 + SOCKS5 proxies on new Linux servers and wire them into an email-validation pipeline that relies on the open-source SMTP library “reacher.”

Your job is to design the architecture, spin up the servers, install and configure the proxies, and prove that they work end-to-end with reacher’s SMTP checks. Everything must run reliably on Linux, with clean automation so the fleet can be reproduced or expanded without manual tweaking.

Key deliverables
• Deployment scripts or IaC (bash, Ansible, Terraform—whatever you prefer) that provision the new servers and expose the SOCKS5 endpoints
• Configuration that plugs the proxies into reacher so test email addresses are validated through the tunnel automatically
• Documentation covering setup steps, commands to scale up or replace nodes, and basic monitoring commands/tests
• A brief validation report showing successful SMTP handshakes through a sample of the proxy pool

If you’ve run high-volume SOCKS5 farms before, know your way around Linux networking, firewall rules, and can integrate reacher quickly, I’d love to see how you’d tackle this.