You might want to consider running an established load-balancing reverse proxy such as HAProxy or nginx, since it will be the weak point of your system. If you have a bug in your reverse proxy/load balancer, everything goes down. You could also handle SSL at the proxy so your twisted application servers don't need handle it.
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