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What is HAProxy?
It is a multi functional proxy server. It is also a type of software loadbalancer. It has been under development for a long time and seems to be selling very fast, robust and reliable.
What HAProxy is and what it is not is itemized in the documentation .
Roughly summarized, something like this is written.
- Can act as a proxy for TCP connections and set access routes
- It functions as an HTTP reverse proxy and can pass requests to another server according to the rules.
- At this time, you can also rewrite the URL and header.
- Can take over SSL and HTTP compression
- Becomes a TCP / HTTP normalizer
- Providing protection from unauthorized traffic
