nice and stable with...
If it ain't stable for an S9 using ckproxy, it ain't stable for an S9.

I'm provisioning a new standalone stratum server now to see if there is any improvement running on a high performance ssd vps.
Stratehm proxy is fantastic, my S9 (B3 w/ updated firmware) is more reliable than my S7's on zpool, have only had to reset it once. (This was most likely due to messing around and testing stratehm proxy to a tethered cell-phone and not due to zpool, but there it is.)
Is there some advantage to ckproxy that stratehm does not implement? I don't think I could ask for much more functionality.