Load Balancing
Load balancing means dividing up your web traffic and distributing it evenly to a group of identical servers. Load balancing is critical for hosting web applications today.
By sharing the work, your servers will be less strained, which translates to a consistently snappy service. It also makes your service more reliable: By sending traffic to a group of servers, you protect yourself from downtime because if one or even several of your servers fail, your service will continue on without interruption as long as there are other servers still active.
Learn how leading companies implement HAProxy Enterprise load balancing solutions
Our customers use HAProxy Enterprise to achieve the utmost performance, observability, and security. HAProxy Enterprise security solutions are deployed to protect some of the most popular websites in the world.
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Load balancing is in our DNA
At HAProxy Technologies, we create hardware and software load balancers that give you more flexibility and features than other, more primitive solutions like round-robin DNS or using your web server for load balancing.
Our solutions support any application or API using HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, QUIC, and more, such as databases, payment processors, log servers, message queues, mail servers, and IoT devices.
All the best features
Our products offer load balancing features you need for hosting modern applications.
Load balancing algorithms that are right for your use case: round-robin, least connections, first, random, and consistent hashing algorithms that distribute traffic based on URL, source IP address, or HTTP header.
A flexible and powerful syntax for defining custom routing rules.
Active and passive health checking to ensure that clients are routed to only healthy servers.
Centralized management, monitoring, and automation.
Session stickiness for sending a client to the same server where their session has been established.
Multi-layered security including SSL/TLS encryption, next-generation HAProxy Enterprise WAF, HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module, Global Profiling Engine, and a range of response policies for dealing with malicious traffic.
Detailed logs and metrics that give you accurate information about the characteristics of your traffic.
Service discovery enabling intelligent external load balancing, multi-cluster routing, and blue-green deployments with Kubernetes.
Power your uptime with HAProxy Products
HAProxy Enterprise
HAProxy Enterprise is the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. It powers modern application delivery at any scale and in any environment, providing the utmost performance, observability, and security.
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HAProxy ALOHA Hardware or Virtual Load Balancer
HAProxy ALOHA is a plug-and-play hardware or virtual load balancer based on HAProxy Enterprise that supports proxying at Layers 4 and 7. Its simple graphical interface, easy installation, and no limit on backend servers make it ideal for companies looking for a dedicated system to ensure high-performance load distribution for critical services.
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HAProxy Fusion Control Plane
Bring centralized management, monitoring, and automation to your HAProxy Enterprise load balancing infrastructure. DevSecOps teams can leverage simple workflows to configure load balancer instances and security protocols in HAProxy Fusion Control Plane. This makes it easy to extend HAProxy Enterprise’s security and performance advantage across large and diverse organizations.
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On-Demand Webinar
Introduction to HAProxy
Are you new to using the HAProxy? Are you new to load balancing in general?
In this webinar, you will take your first steps with HAProxy. Learn the benefits of load balancing for achieving reliable uptime for your websites and applications. Get an understanding of where the software fits in your network.
We’ll cover:
An overview of the problems HAProxy solves
How traffic flows through the load balancer
An introduction to HAProxy concepts and configuration
On-Demand Webinar
External Load Balancing and Multi-Cluster Routing for Kubernetes
Simplify deploying Kubernetes in complex scenarios using HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise for intelligent external load balancing and multi-cluster routing.
Why is it hard to get external traffic into Kubernetes (on-premises and cloud)?
How does HAProxy help with Kubernetes?
Introducing HAProxy Fusion with Service Discovery
A simple solution for external load balancing and multi-cluster routing for Kubernetes (inc. A/B testing, blue/green deployments, and multi-region failover).