HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for very high traffic web sites …

Kevin Phair of NYI reports that haproxy handles the load balancing aspects of their Fault Tolerant Web service : “HAProxy easily fits our performance needs, and we find it far easier to manage and trouble …

When building large caching farms across multiple nodes, HAProxy can make use of consistent URL hashing to intelligently distribute the load to the caching nodes

Aug 19, 2024 · HAProxy Enterprise 2.9+ supports UDP load balancing with a native module (not via LVS). HAProxy ALOHA appliances support UDP via LVS, but will have the same native UDP module …

Oct 25, 2023 · HAProxy now supports Syslog and DNS load balancing. For generalized UDP load balancing, we typically recommend using LVS for UDP while using HAProxy for HTTP / TCP.

Jul 8, 2025 · To handle growing traffic, I’m considering HAProxy as a lightweight reverse proxy and load balancer between the MQTT broker (Mosquitto) and a REST API used for data visualization.

Nov 22, 2015 · It is particularly suited to optimise the load balancing of static or stateless objects in the middle of a stateful farm. Second, it was planned 3 years ago to be able to feed ACLs with large data …

Jun 13, 2019 · I see in few of the posts or blogs about haproxy that the UDP is not supported in it, but to have it get supported, LVS has to be configured at the kernel level to load balance TCP or UDP traffic.

May 16, 2018 · Yes, you can very well achieve the scenario described by you using HAProxy. You need to use the use-server directive in your backend configuration as shown below:

Aug 19, 2020 · HAProxy’s job is to load balance / failover, not to avoid a MySQL issue, so you’re tackling the issue from the wrong perspective. If I were you, I’d tackle this from the app perspective / …