Hi Folks,
In my current organization we are using Apache modproxy for load balancing activities. One of our vendor suggested to use HAProxy for load balancing. I tried searching for what advantages HAProxy over apache modproxy, didn’t find it anywhere. Can some one please help me to understand the differences and advantages of HAProxy over modproxy.
Thanks
Surendra
I don’t know anything about mod_proxy or mod_proxy_balancer, but haproxy has been written for this use-case, with a huge amount of functionality like customizable health checks, all kinds of load balancing algorithms, stickiness with various methods, etc.
What’s better for specific deployments however depends. If you have a team that is already familiar with mod_proxy and it has all the features you need and works without any issues, then you should definitely stick to that.
If you need a specific feature or a look at everything for a greenfield deployment, things are different of course.