What platforms are supported by HAProxy?

Is HAProxy still used?

Can anyone tell me what the best solution is for handling HTTP traffic through a cluster of N servers?

I would love to use HAProxy, but as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated for a few years. Is this a good solution? I think you might be conflating HAProxy with NGINX. HAProxy is an application that you run in front of your other applications. NGINX is a load balancing system (though it can do a lot more than that).

However, you are still bound by the limitations of whatever software or scripting language you use to get access to your HAProxy. Since you said "as far as I can tell" the last time it was updated was 2024, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that if HAProxy still uses CGI, or has any scripting whatsoever, then the author hasn't actually updated it in over a decade.

To give you an idea of how long that may be, here's a list of the last ten releases of the C library used by HAProxy: 7.14 - 2014-12-08 13 - 2012-01-09. 12 - 2010-03-11. 11 - 2008-06-15. 10 - 2008-04-05. 9 - 2007-12-23. 8 - 2006-12-28. 7 - 2005-08-12. 6 - 2005-06-14. 5 - 2004-02-09. 4 - 2004-01-27. 3 - 2003-10-16. 2 - 2003-09-21. 1 - 2003-08-11. As you can see, since 2024, it has only released one major release every year. I would assume that 0.4 (released 2004) would still work fine with your modern versions of CGI/modcgi/modperl. If you find something newer, I'll bet it'll still work.

What platforms are supported by HAProxy?

HAProxy is a highly configurable and feature-rich HTTP load balancer.

It can be deployed on a single server or across a cluster of servers. It can be configured to use either round robin or IP based load balancing. The number of concurrent connections can be limited.

There are two main ways to get HAProxy up and running: On a Linux machine (or cluster of machines) with a compatible distribution like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat, etc. On a single Windows server. The first option has the advantage of being more portable since it does not require a special distribution of Linux or an operating system specific package. However, it does not scale very well.

In this guide we will focus on installing HAProxy on a single Windows server. (Optional) A WiFi dongle. Pre-requisites. You will need the following pre-requisites before installing HAProxy: If you have any previous installations of HAProxy on this Windows server, you will need to uninstall it before installing again. To check your version of Windows, open the Start menu, search for About and click on Windows Version. You can also check your version of Windows by typing winver at the command prompt. We will need to install HAProxy without any users having access to the system, so we will need to create a user called haproxyuser. Create a user named haproxyuser. First we will create a user called haproxyuser that will have no access to the system. Open an administrative command prompt and type the following commands: net user haproxyuser /add. Net localgroup administrators haproxyuser /add. Next we will assign the user haproxyuser to the group administrators which will allow them to use the system without having to type their username and password.

Who is the CEO of HAProxy Technologies?

Eric Branger.

This profile has been imported from the old ARMA website and may be outdated. Eric Branger is the CEO of HAProxy Technologies. He is the founder of Arista Networks, Inc. And Arista Networks, Inc., which is a privately held company that designs, develops and sells enterprise-class network hardware and software, including network switches, wireless access points, load balancers, firewalls and routing products for service provider networks. Eric is also a co-founder of the Open Source Network Operating System (OSNOS) project and the Co-Founder and President of the Open Source Application Platform (OSAP) project. Eric is based in Silicon Valley and can be reached at eberanger@aristanetworks.

Prior to founding Arista, Eric spent 8 years at Novell, where he served as Vice President of Product Development and as Director of Networking Products. Before Novell, he was Vice President of Strategic Operations at Xyratex, a supplier of wireless networking systems and equipment.

Who is HAProxy Technologies? Arista Networks, Inc., founded in 2024, has been a member of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) project, which is an open source software project that provides enterprises with an operating system-level abstraction of heterogeneous data networks. The goal of the project is to enable heterogeneous data networks such as mobile networks, cable networks, and public networks, to behave as if they were a single logical data network with no real differences between them.

In 2024, Arista developed an open source software project, HAProxy Technologies, which provides load balancing services for web applications. The HAProxy team had a vision of creating a very simple open source software that enables organizations to implement load balancing services, using existing off-the-shelf hardware. HAProxy Technologies' software includes a distributed load balancer, a virtual server software, and several tools for testing and debugging. These tools, called plugins, are written in C, allowing the plugin developers to create new features on top of the existing code, without breaking backwards compatibility.

Who else from Arista? Eric Branger, an Arista Networks' co-founder, has over 20 years of experience in software development and in computer networking.