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DigitalOcean Load Balancer vs Hipache: 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 Hipache? A distributed HTTP and websocket proxy. Hipache is a distributed proxy designed to route high volumes of http and websocket traffic to unusually large numbers of virtual hosts, in a highly dynamic topology where backends are added and removed several times per second. It is particularly well-suited for PaaS (platform-as-a-service) and other environments that are both business-critical and multi-tenant.
DigitalOcean Load Balancer and Hipache belong to "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" category of the tech stack.
Hipache is an open source tool with 2.25K GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hipache's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
Pros of Hipache
- Redis as backend3
- Easy setup1
- Fast1
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Cons of DigitalOcean Load Balancer
- No Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate support1
