HAPROXY

The #1 Open Source Software Load Balancer and Application Delivery Controller

HAProxy Technologies is the world’s leading provider of software load balancers and application delivery controllers (ADCs) for modern enterprises. HAProxy empowers users with the flexibility and confidence to deliver websites and applications with high availability, performance and security at any scale and in any environment. HAProxy’s range of solutions is backed by expert support and services.

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HAProxy Powers the Uptime of the Cloud Era

Load Balancing

Load balance your services at any scale and in any environment with our feature-rich application delivery controllers.

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High Availability

Deliver optimal user experiences regardless of volume of visitors, number of hits, or complexity of request.

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Application Acceleration

High performance SSL offloading, advanced timings, high performance lookup maps, HTTP compression, device detection and HTTP routing.

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Security

Receive the benefits of SSL with less hardware, reduce the number of services exposed to the Internet, stop DDoS and Brute Force attacks, detect and block SQL/XSS attacks, ensure protocol compliance and identify intrusions with our advanced logging.

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Microservices

HAProxy is at the core of application delivery for some of the largest and most complex microservices architectures in the world and constantly releases new features to support these dynamic environments.

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HAProxy is container ready

HAProxy is proven as an edge proxy for load balancing your Docker nodes, allowing you to scale out whether you’re using Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or Mesosphere. HAProxy can also be deployed as a containerized application, giving you the ultimate flexibility in how you choose to deploy.

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HAProxy Products

HAProxy Community Edition

Most widely used, high performing, reliable and secure software load balancer in the world.

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HAProxy Enterprise Edition

Enterprise-class version of HAProxy that combines the stable and cutting-edge code bases with enterprise suite of add-ons, expert support and professional services.

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ALOHA Hardware Appliance

All of the power of HAProxy Enterprise Edition in a plug-and-play hardware appliance for organizations with physical infrastructure.

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ALOHA Virtual Appliance

All of the power of HAProxy Enterprise Edition in a plug-and-play virtual appliance for organizations with virtualized infrastructure.

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Latest Blog Posts

Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy

by Chad Lavoie | Nov 9, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH

HAProxy’s high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world’s top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application with requests or connections, and in this post we will show you how...

[Live Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and Blocking Malicious Traffic

by Senad Caus | Nov 6, 2018 | TECH, WEBINARS

Live webinar date and time: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM EST Other time zones: US: 9:00 AM - 9:40 AM PST / 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM MST / 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM CST Europe: 5:00 PM - 5:40 PM GMT / 6:00 PM - 6:40 PM CET / 7:00 PM - 7:40 PM IST As requests...

The Four Essential Sections of an HAProxy Configuration

by Chad Lavoie | Oct 24, 2018 | BASICS, TECH

An HAProxy configuration file guides the behavior of your HAProxy load balancer. In this post, we demonstrate its four most essential sections. There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global, defaults, frontend, and backend. These...