HAProxy
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HAProxy

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Introduction

HAProxy stands as an exceptional, free reverse-proxy that provides high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. Its speed and reliability make it especially ideal for websites experiencing heavy traffic, affirming its position as the power behind a significant portion of the world's most visited sites. Over time, HAProxy has established itself as the standard bearer in open-source load balancers.

HAProxy - The Reliable, High Perf. TCP/HTTP Load Balancer
Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Features

Renowned for its robustness, HAProxy is crafted by a team of developers who are dedicated to fixing even the smallest bugs. Users frequently acclaim the software for its stability, considering it an unshakeable cornerstone of their infrastructure.

One of the key features of HAProxy is load balancing. It effortlessly balances your services at any scale and in any environment with feature-rich application delivery controllers. This enables seamless handling of your services while ensuring uniform workload distribution.

Another standout feature is its high availability. Regardless of visitor volume or complexity of requests, HAProxy consistently delivers optimal user experiences. It stands as a testament to impeccable service delivery that doesn't falter under pressure.


With 3872 GitHub stars and the latest commit on 2023-07-31 the project looks healthy.