HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.
HAProxy is known to reliably run on the following OS/Platforms :
* Linux 2.4 on x86, x86_64, Alpha, SPARC, MIPS, PARISC
* Linux 2.6 on x86, x86_64, ARM (ixp425), PPC64
* Solaris 8/9 on UltraSPARC 2 and 3
* Solaris 10 on Opteron and UltraSPARC
* FreeBSD 4.10 – 6.2 on x86
* OpenBSD 3.1 to -current on i386, amd64, macppc, alpha, sparc64 and VAX (check the ports)
Source:
http://haproxy.1wt.eu
