HAProxy

Fast and reliable TCP and HTTP load balancer

About HAProxy

A free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications, widely used by high-traffic websites and infrastructure teams. It is free and open source, so teams can self-host it, inspect the code and adapt it to their own infrastructure without licence fees or vendor lock-in. Typical users run it alongside existing workflows to cut manual effort, improve visibility and keep full control over data, configuration and upgrades over time.

HAProxy key facts

Category: Developer Tools
Pricing: Free — listed in this directory as a free tool, with no paid plan required to use it.
Focus areas: load balancer, proxy, http, high availability
Official site: haproxy.org

About the Developer Tools category

Editors, platforms, and services developers rely on to build and ship software. The Developer Tools category on Tools Hub currently lists 738 tools. Alongside HAProxy, it includes Traefik, LocalStack, Testcontainers, Tilt.

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