Haproxy balance options

1. How does HAProxy load balancing work?
2. What are the HAProxy configuration options?
3. Is HAProxy a good load balancer?

How does HAProxy load balancing work?

An HAProxy load balancer lets you specify different load balancing modes, depending on the type of application you're serving. Its round-robin mode will send requests to your servers in a rotation and works well when requests take a small and predictable amount of time to handle, such as HTTP requests.

What are the HAProxy configuration options?

There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global , defaults , frontend , and backend . These four sections define how the server as a whole performs, what your default settings are, and how client requests are received and routed to your backend servers.

Is HAProxy a good load balancer?

HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is open source proxy and load balancing server software. It provides high availability at the network (TCP) and application (HTTP/S) layers, improving speed and performance by distributing workload across multiple servers.