HAProxy ALOHA

The plug and play enterprise hardware load balancer

The hardware load balancer that ships ready.

HAProxy ALOHA delivers high-performance proxying at Layer 4 and Layer 7 for critical services, built on the proven HAProxy Enterprise engine. It arrives pre-configured and ready to rack, so you can deploy in minutes and keep operations simple.

A purpose-built hardware appliance with the same load balancing and security for TCP, UDP, QUIC, and HTTP/S.

Contact us to clarify which solution fits your needs the best or take a look at our virtual load balancer.

Satisfaction score (per G2 Reviews)

Customer retention (annual renewals)

Years in production (at global scale)

“It makes it simple to input your config, easy to check the status of your applications, and quick to deploy. When you have questions or need configuration assistance, the ALOHA team does an excellent job in helping.”

Austin E. (G2) Infrastructure Manager

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A dedicated appliance for guaranteed throughput

HAProxy ALOHA hardware benefits

HAProxy ALOHA hardware gives you a purpose-built load balancer appliance with guaranteed throughput, ready to install in your rack and route production traffic the same day.

Plug-and-play deployment

Route production traffic the same day, with no software stack to maintain. You cable up the 1U appliance, configure it through a guided GUI, and go live in minutes, with no agents to deploy and no per-backend licensing limits.

Built on HAProxy Enterprise

The same battle-tested core that handles traffic for high-traffic gaming and global payment platforms, packaged as an appliance. You get the performance, security, and high availability features production teams rely on, with no software-stack maintenance to manage.

Simple operations

New team members can drive the appliance from day one without learning a proprietary scripting language. An embedded web GUI, a configuration wizard, a templating system, and a complete CLI cover every operator preference.

PacketShield DDoS protection

Patented packet-level filtering blocks unwanted traffic at line rate (up to 10 Gbps wire speed), with zero false positives. Deploy as a router or load balancer and stop attacks before they reach your application stack.

Achieving multi-datacenter high availability with HAProxy ALOHA & GSLB

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Achieving multi-datacenter high availability with HAProxy ALOHA & GSLB

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HAProxy ALOHA hardware features

Key capabilities of the HAProxy ALOHA hardware appliance

HAProxy ALOHA hardware combines line-rate performance, multi-layer security, and simple operations in a single appliance.

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Load Balancing Performance Security Hardware appliance Administration

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Flexible traffic management across any deployment model

Power your applications and APIs regardless of demand, deployment model, or underlying tech stack.

Multiple load balancing modes

Load balance Layer 4 (networking) or Layer 7 (application) traffic. Supports reverse proxy, transparent proxy, direct server return, NAT, IPIP, and VIP-less modes for greater flexibility across application delivery use cases.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Designate HAProxy ALOHA as an authoritative DNS server across global regions and route client requests to local data centers. Enables failover and round-robin distribution, with simple config management for multiple zones and secure HTTPS health checking.

High availability

Keep your applications and APIs online with advanced health checks, backup server support, traffic overload protection, VRRP floating virtual IPs, and route health injection.

Broad protocol support

Load balance HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTP/3 over QUIC, UDP, gRPC, FastCGI, Financial Information eXchange (FIX), MQTT, and more.

Low-latency performance, tuned for your hardware

HAProxy ALOHA hardware is engineered for efficient throughput at line rate, with room to scale as your traffic grows.

Compression

Compress HTTP responses before passing them to clients. Reduces payload sizes, bandwidth usage, and server CPU load.

Connection management

Dynamically control server-side connections for better resource usage, and filter malformed TCP connections and HTTP requests.

Buffering and queueing

Accelerate TCP and HTTP performance by intelligently managing data flows, giving the recipient time to process data without becoming overwhelmed.

HTTP header manipulation

Alter any HTTP header within each request or response to use caching more effectively, reduce data payloads, and use mechanisms such as Keep-Alive.

Tackle threats with next-generation security

HAProxy ALOHA hardware includes a complete set of security features to keep your applications, users, and data safe.

HAProxy Enterprise WAF

Powered by our Intelligent WAF Engine and threat intelligence from HAProxy Edge, our next-generation WAF delivers a balanced accuracy of 99.65% with ultra-low latency and zero-day threat protection. Customize protection for different apps and locations with WAF Profiles.

HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module

Stop DDoS attacks, fraud, scraping, and brute force attacks without blocking legitimate bots or tools. The Threat Detection Engine classifies and labels complex threats with high accuracy, adapts to your traffic profile, and keeps data private with 100% local processing.

High-performance TLS

End-to-end TLS encryption for all communication. TLS termination at the appliance speeds up decryption while minimizing added latency. The AWS-LC library provides best-available performance at any scale.

PacketShield filtering

Patented DDoS protection filters incoming packets at line rate up to 10 Gbps wire speed, blocking unwanted traffic in real time with zero false positives. Deploy as a router or load balancer.

Powerful, rack-mounted devices

Support performance-sensitive applications and APIs, with the option to scale up when your needs change.

Two high-performance models

Whether you're a small business or a large enterprise, HAProxy ALOHA hardware models are tuned for your throughput and capacity.

Flexible licensing

Upgrade capacity and move between performance tiers without replacing the appliance or starting a new procurement cycle. Multiple licensing options give you distinct performance and capacity specs now, with room to grow as your infrastructure changes.

Diverse network interface support

Run at 1, 10, or 40 Gbps by aggregating links and combining network interfaces. Equip your appliances with SFP+ and QSFP+ optical transceivers to interconnect with your core network.

PacketShield filtering

Patented packet-level DDoS protection runs in hardware at up to 10 Gbps wire speed, with zero false positives. Stop volumetric attacks before they consume application capacity.

If your team would rather deploy in a hypervisor, see HAProxy ALOHA virtual.

Take control of your appliance

HAProxy ALOHA hardware ships with a complete set of GUI and API-driven management tools so your infrastructure keeps running smoothly.

Standards-based administration

Support for SNMP, NTP, Syslog, and VRRP keeps your load-balancing setup synchronized, manageable, and reliable.

Interfaces for any preference

Manage configuration, provisioning, monitoring, and diagnostics through the web interface or the Network Administration API. Connect directly via serial port or remotely via SSH.

Configuration templating

Deploy your applications in minutes without writing complex configuration sections from scratch. Quickly configure network interfaces, link aggregation, VLAN membership, and IP-related parameters.

VLAN tagging

Identify and isolate traffic by assigning unique VLANs to groups of devices and their Ethernet frames. Track network packets and control traffic flows while boosting performance and security.

What are users saying about HAProxy ALOHA?

"Coming from another competitor with closed source hardware products, the flexibility and value of HAProxy is unmatched in any other product we've tried."

Philip C., via G2

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