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DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs HAProxy: What are the differences?
What is DigitalOcean Load Balancer? Scale your applications and improve availability across your infrastructure in a few clicks. Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability.
What is HAProxy? The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer. HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
DigitalOcean Load Balancer and HAProxy belong to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, HAProxy has a broader approval, being mentioned in 457 company stacks & 211 developers stacks; compared to DigitalOcean Load Balancer, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
Pros of HAProxy
- Load balancer133
- High performance102
- Very fast69
- Proxying for tcp and http58
- SSL termination55
- Open source31
- Reliable27
- Free20
- Well-Documented18
- Very popular12
- Runs health checks on backends7
- Suited for very high traffic web sites7
- Scalable6
- Ready to Docker5
- Powers many world's most visited sites4
- Simple3
- Ssl offloading2
- Work with NTLM2
- Available as a plugin for OPNsense1
- Redis1
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Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
- No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support1
Cons of HAProxy
- Becomes your single point of failure6
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