Load Balancing

Secure, high-performance application delivery at massive scale

Optimize your web application, API, and AI/ML services by distributing traffic intelligently across your servers. Reduce strain on your backend resources, boost reliability and performance, secure all traffic, and improve observability across your infrastructure.

The Problem

Managing traffic at scale in a flexible, cost-effective way is challenging.

Users make an estimated 13.1 trillion HTTP requests each day across apps and services. However, implementing efficient and reliable load balancing at massive scale is often cost-prohibitive — despite the link between performance and a positive user experience.

Organizations typically face a tough choice between performance, flexibility, and reducing costs.

UX matters

90% of users have stopped using an app due to poor performance.

Downtime is expensive

On average, large enterprises can lose $400,000 per hour to surprise outages — regardless of sector.

Innovation faces barriers

70% of organizations have faced delays in digital transformation due to complexity and cost.

Load Balancing Features

Explore load balancing with HAProxy

Learn how our load balancing solutions can help your applications, APIs, and AI services run their best.

Automation and self-service

Offload load balancer management from central Ops teams while making self-service application delivery more efficient for App teams. Make “shadow IT” a thing of the past.

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UDP load balancing

Bring ultra-low latency load balancing to DNS, RADIUS, Syslog traffic, and more. Scale massively while ensuring unmatched datagram delivery rates and throughput.

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High availability

Approach 99.999% uptime and keep your services online. Learn how health checks, multi-layered security features, performance optimizations, and much more keep users engaged.

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Kubernetes

Unlock intelligent external load balancing, multi-cluster routing, direct-to-pod load balancing, and high-performance ingress for K8s applications. Boost simplicity and consistency.

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API gateway

Help your APIs and services scale massively, complete with HAProxy's legendary performance, security, and reliability features. Bring centralized simplicity to your API infrastructure.

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AI Gateway

Help your AI/ML applications scale massively. Boost reliability, strengthen security, and optimize costs. Innovate freely and deliver improved user experiences with ease.

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Platform Overview

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The world's fastest application delivery and security platform seamlessly blends data plane, control plane, and edge network to deliver the world's most demanding applications, APls, and Al services in any environment.

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HAProxy Enterprise

A flexible data plane layer that provides high-performance load balancing, an API/Al gateway, Kubernetes application routing, best-in-class SSL processing, and multi-layered security.

HAProxy Fusion Control Plane

A scalable control plane that provides full-lifecycle management, monitoring, and automation of multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments.

HAProxy Edge

A secure edge network that provides a high-capacity global ADN and threat intelligence — enhanced by machine learning — that powers the next-generation security layers in HAProxy Fusion and HAProxy Enterprise.

World-class experience

24/7 support from real humans! We're the authoritative experts on HAProxy — including the edge, data plane, control plane, and security layers. We'll do whatever it takes to make your HAProxy deployment a success.

What are users saying about HAProxy load balancing?

"If we suffer outages, we look like a small company – like we’re not able to maintain things. It doesn't matter how good our product is, we're going to lose business. So reliable infrastructure is critically important. HAProxy’s stability has been absolutely fantastic. I have had zero problems with stability. It’s been absolutely rock solid."

Ian Chizmar CEO and Chief Architect at I-Track Software
Load Balancing

"We use HAProxy as a reverse proxy and are very satisfied with the results. One of the standout features is its extremely low resource consumption, making it a lean and efficient solution. Despite its lightweight nature, HAProxy offers a wide range of features and delivers excellent performance, even under high traffic loads.

The configuration options are versatile, and its stability is remarkable. We also appreciate the flexibility and easy integration into our existing systems. HAProxy fully meets our needs for reliability and efficiency and has proven to be an invaluable tool in our infrastructure."

Roger S., via G2

Ready to get started with load balancing?

Keep your applications, APIs, and AI services online, performant, and secure with HAProxy. Learn more about intelligent traffic routing with our integrated solution. 

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