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If I have a cloud provider, why might I use HAProxy over the provider's load balancing solution?
If I have a cloud provider, why might I use HAProxy over the provider's load balancing solution?
Author of the blog post here, happy to answer any questions about this release.
- the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do. https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-enterprise-edition/ has a download button as the start and tells nothing about the product.
- it is hard to find requirements from the first page. (https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/2-2r1/getting-st...)
- is there any a page with basic architecture of the product? Some diagrams with typical configurations.
- is there a simpler HA setup than the 3 layer one here: https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/2-2r1/high-avail... ? What is the simplest HA configuration for 2 web servers?
Author of the blog post here, happy to answer any questions about this release.
Not specific to this release, but for an system architect that is taking the first look ever to the product: - the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do. https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-enterprise-edition/ has a download button as the start and tells nothing about the product. - it is hard to find requirements from the first page. ( https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hape…
> - the site does not do a good job of describing the products and what they do.
The page does lead off by telling you it is a software load balancer, but I agree, we can do a better job of giving more information on the product itself. Most people who pursue HAProxy Enterprise are already familiar with HAProxy. With that said, we're actually working on a complete overhaul to this page and I believe the new version will address this.
> - it is hard to find requirements from the first page.
This is just a reference point and typically organizations are working closely with a sales engineer.
> - is there a simpler HA setup than the 3 layer one here:
A simpler version is found under active/standby here [1]
[1] https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/hapee/2-2r1/high-avail...
I've been long interested in HAProxy, but I can't seem to sell myself on it. When might I choose HAProxy that OpenResty[1] would not be sufficient or better? [1]: https://openresty.org/en/
If I have a cloud provider, why might I use HAProxy over the provider's load balancing solution?
disclaimer: I work at HAProxy Technologies More control/flexibility (i.e. cloud provider usually gives you a limited number of "checkboxes" that they want you to be able to modify), generally better observability (HAProxy timing metrics [1] and session state at disconnection codes [2] are very helpful for debugging), and granular control over timeouts [3]. You also get builtin rate limiting [4], which from what I hav…
Question about the suitability for a dynamic backend case. I have a system where clients are assigned to backends exclusively for the duration of a session. At the moment I have a pool of backends and each client is explicitly told which backend to use so they can route to it. Ideally I’d make this transparent so it was easier to reassign on the fly. Is this case reasonably supported with HAProxy and which features should I be looking at to get a sense of it?
I’m working under the assumption that I’ll need to build the machinery to maintain the pool and registry of where clients should be routed to.
If I have a cloud provider, why might I use HAProxy over the provider's load balancing solution?
Cost. I imagine.
For early stage projects, and particularly for personal projects it's more cost efficient to use haproxy.
As an added bonus it's got all the bells and whistles to match demands as you scale, and no (cloud) vendor lock-in
But I feel sorry for him now, with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 the pain will never stop. And IPv6 makes most of this obsolete if it happens!
I stick with HTTP/1.1 since I'm building a native 3D MMO; only Microsoft can block port 80 which I doubt they will atleast in the coming 5 years!
Linux wont, they are not that stupid.
Edit: allready the bots have downvoted, this is beautiful.
I've been long interested in HAProxy, but I can't seem to sell myself on it. When might I choose HAProxy that OpenResty[1] would not be sufficient or better? [1]: https://openresty.org/en/