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HAProxy vs Seesaw: What are the differences?
Developers describe HAProxy as "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. On the other hand, Seesaw is detailed as "Google Open Source Load Balancer in Go". Seesaw v2 is a Linux Virtual Server (LVS) based load balancing platform. It is capable of providing basic load balancing for servers that are on the same network, through to advanced load balancing functionality such as anycast, Direct Server Return (DSR), support for multiple VLANs and centralised configuration.
HAProxy and Seesaw can be categorized as "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy" tools.
Seesaw is an open source tool with 4.81K GitHub stars and 460 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Seesaw's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of HAProxy
- Load balancer130
- High performance101
- 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
- Work with NTLM2
- Ssl offloading2
- Available as a plugin for OPNsense1
Pros of Seesaw
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Cons of HAProxy
- Becomes your single point of failure6