HAProxy definition

Wikipedia definition

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAProxy

• https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git

HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers.

It is written in C and has a reputation for being fast and efficient (in terms of processor and memory usage).

HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub, Bitbucket,[4] Stack Overflow,[5] Reddit, Speedtest.net, Tumblr, Twitter[6][7] and Tuenti[8] and is used in the OpsWorks product from Amazon Web Services.[9]