HAProxy
High-performance load balancer
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Project is healthy
Funding
Stable
Maintenance
Active
Contributors
Healthy
Bus Factor
Low risk
Overview
HAProxy is a free, very fast, and reliable reverse proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Importance
- Powers high-traffic websites
- Foundation for load balancing
- Critical for application availability
- Used by GitHub, Reddit, and more
Key Features
- Layer 4 and 7 load balancing
- SSL termination
- Health checking
- Rate limiting
Sustainability
HAProxy has commercial backing from HAProxy Technologies. The open-source project benefits from corporate support.
Dependencies
Depends On
(3)
HAProxy
unknown
Dependency Chain
Upstream
OpenSSL
→
zlib
→
Linux Kernel
→
HAProxy
Impact Analysis
3
Direct Dependencies
0
Dependent Projects
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