Does HAProxy work on Windows?

What is the equivalent of HAProxy for Windows?

I'm looking for a simple way to load balance and limit requests on Windows machines.

Something like HAProxy for Linux. Does such a thing exist?

I haven't seen an equivalent, but you can try something like. In addition to the main haproxy binary, it includes a small http server, named apache-httpd.exe. This is a lightweight version of Apache (1.34) that only supports proxying http traffic.

It is called "WinGate". I am not sure if it is open source, but it looks pretty complete and easy to use. It is included in the Windows Services and Administrative Tools package.

Wedge.

What is the difference between HAProxy and nginx?

Short answer is that Nginx allows you to load balance requests on a per-service basis.

HAProxy does not support multiple services behind one single IP address, but you can use the "service" directive to map different request paths to different backend servers. You'll need some glue though to ensure the right backends are assigned to a given service.

In terms of speed, HAProxy seems to be faster and lighter. HAProxy has also been around longer than nginx and seems to have a broader implementation for high traffic load balancing, while nginx has had a big performance boost in recent years. This is what Google's docs say about them: What are the big differences between these two web load. balancing agents? There are several reasons that lead us to say that nginx is the way to. go when it comes to high-volume, high-throughput web sites. - HAProxy needs many resources, including CPUs, memory, hard disks. network cards, etc. So it is only used at large scale.
- Nginx loads the pages faster than HAProxy due to the internal. buffering. - Nginx uses less memory and less CPU time than HAProxy. I have just started to use HAproxy for our load balancing. The big issue with nginx was always it's limitation in number of concurrent requests. HAproxy has no such limitations and this is a very important feature for me when I have to deal with heavy amount of traffic.