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Is HAProxy a load balancer?

November 4, 2019 by Rhyley Bryan

Is HAProxy a load balancer?

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is open source proxy and load balancing server software. It provides high availability at the network (TCP) and application (HTTP/S) layers, improving speed and performance by distributing workload across multiple servers. HAProxy runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.

Is Nginx better than HAProxy?

1.2’s nginx. HAProxy is definitely the better, more fully featured loadbalancer (compared to the free nginx, not nginx plus (but one could argue that as well). One thing that HAProxy sadly still can’t do is generic UDP connections. So we used HAProxy and nginx on our logging lbs.

How does HAProxy Load Balancing Work?

HAProxy Algorithms It works by using each server behind the load balancer in turns, according to their weights. It’s also probably the smoothest and most fair algorithm as the servers’ processing time stays equally distributed. As a dynamic algorithm, Round Robin allows server weights to be adjusted on the go.

What kind of load balancing software is HAProxy?

What do you need to know about HAProxy logging?

HAProxy provides very detailed logs with millisecond accuracy and generates a wealth of information about traffic flowing into your infrastructure. This includes: Information about requests and responses: headers, status codes, payloads, etc.

What is the balance roundrobin line in HAProxy?

balance roundrobin line specifies the load balancing algorithm, which is detailed in the Load Balancing Algorithms section. mode http specifies that layer 7 proxying will be used, which is explained in Types of Load Balancing section.

What’s the difference between on edge and HAProxy?

Both HAProxy and on-edge load balancers provide URI/URL based load balancing. HAProxy logs provide a variety of data, including: On-edge server data logs provide similar data to that offered by HAProxy. Additionally, as an end to end service, on-edge load balancers offer both cross data center and in data center traffic logs.