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HAProxy Server Setup Operating System :ĜentOS 6.5 Here our load-balancer HAProxy server having hostname as with IP address 192.168.0.125. And also we’re using CentOS 6.5 for this setup, but the below given instructions also works on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian distributions.

In this tutorial, we will discuss the process of setting up a high availability load balancer using HAProxy to control the traffic of HTTP-based applications (web servers) by separating requests across multiple servers.įor this article, we’re using the most recent stable release of HAProxy version i.e. It is available for Linux, BSD, Solaris and AIX platform. The highly efficient and fast application is used by many of the world’s reputed organization which includes but not limited to – Twitter, Reddit, GitHub and Amazon.

The most common use of the HAProxy application is to distribute the workload across multiple servers e.g., web server, database server, etc thus improving the overall performance and reliability of server environment. HAProxy application is used as TCP/HTTP Load Balancer and for proxy Solutions. It is a Free and open source application written in C programming Language.

HAProxy stands for High Availability proxy.