HAProxy ALOHA is a dedicated hardware or virtual load balancer based on HAProxy Enterprise that supports proxying at Layer 4 and Layer 7. It is designed for organizations requiring high-performance routing for critical services. HAProxy ALOHA provides simple, reliable, and secure application delivery for teams needing a proven load-balancing appliance with guaranteed performance. It offers plug-and-play setup, making it easy to install and deploy without limits on backend servers, and is compatible with most infrastructure setups. Built upon HAProxy Enterprise, HAProxy ALOHA includes powerful performance, security, and high availability features. Its simple UX, templating system, embedded GUI, configuration wizards, and complete feature set blend rich functionality and usability. HAProxy ALOHA also provides high-performance security, including line-rate DDoS protection to process more requests in real time, block bad traffic, and avoid disrupting legitimate users.

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Powerful load balancing with simple setup HAProxy ALOHA provides simple, reliable, and secure application delivery for teams needing a proven load-balancing appliance with guaranteed performance.

• Plug-and-play setup: Easy to install anywhere and deployable without limits on backend servers, HAProxy ALOHA is compatible with most infrastructure setups. Deploy new applications in minutes.
• A trusted core: Built upon HAProxy Enterprise, HAProxy ALOHA is equally battle tested — and ships with the powerful performance, security, and high availability features organizations rely on.
• Simple UX: HAProxy ALOHA's simple setup process, templating system, embedded GUI, configuration wizards, and complete feature set blend rich functionality and usability.
• High-performance security: Take advantage of HAProxy ALOHA's line-rate DDoS protection to process more requests in real time, block bad traffic, and avoid disrupting legitimate users. Intelligent and flexible traffic management Power your applications and APIs regardless of demand, deployment model, or underlying tech stack.
• Multiple load balancing modes: Load balance Layer 4 (networking) or Layer 7 (application layer) traffic — with support for reverse proxy, transparent proxy, direct server return, NAT, IPIP, and VIP-less modes.
• Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): HAProxy ALOHA can act as an authoritative DNS server across global regions and assign client requests to local datacenters. Unlock failover and round-robin traffic distribution.
• High availability: Keep your applications and APIs online via advanced health checks, backup server support, traffic overload protection, support for VRRP floating virtual IPs, and route health injection.
• Broad protocol support: Load balance HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTP/3 over QUIC, UDP, gRPC, FastCGI, Financial Information eXchange (FIX), and MQTT traffic — and more. Low-latency performance tuned for you Built from the ground up for efficient performance, HAProxy ALOHA grants you the speed you need — with room to scale seamlessly.
• Compression: Compress HTTP responses before passing them to clients. Reduce payload sizes, bandwidth usage, and server CPU load.
• Connection management: Release unused connections early, dynamically control server-side connections for improved resource usage, and filter malformed TCP connections or HTTP requests.
• Buffering and queueing: Accelerate TCP and HTTP performance by intelligently managing data flows between devices, while giving the recipient more time to process data without becoming overwhelmed.
• HTTP header manipulation: Alter any specific HTTP header within each request or response to use caching more effectively, reduce data payloads, and employ mechanisms such as Keep-Alive. Tackle common and emerging threats with next-gen security HAProxy ALOHA includes a host of powerful security features to keep your applications, users, and data safe.
• HAProxy Enterprise WAF: Powered by our Intelligent WAF Engine using threat intelligence data from HAProxy Edge, HAProxy Enterprise WAF delivers a balanced accuracy of 98.48% with ultra-low latency to counteract evolving threats.
• HAProxy Enterprise Bot Management Module: Identify, categorize, and filter harmful bots and crawlers attempting to access your applications. Stop DDoS attacks, fraud, scraping, brute force attacks, and more — without blocking legitimate bots or web tools.
• Robust encryption: End-to-end TLS encryption for all communication ensures the highest levels of data security and privacy. TLS termination speeds up decryption at the load balancer while minimizing added latency.
• PacketShield filtering: Our patented DDoS protection filters incoming packets at a wire-speed line rate, and blocks unwanted traffic in real-time with zero false positives. Deploy as a router or load balancer. Built for your virtualized infrastructure Delivering the same powerful Layer 7 and Layer 4 features as HAProxy ALOHA Hardware appliance — packaged specifically for leading hypervisors.
• Seamless integration: Deployable as a virtual image, HAProxy ALOHA Virtual Load Balancer ships with support for VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisors.
• Native management: Harness an embedded GUI to manage configuration, monitor real-time performance, security, health, connection details, and more. Use the Network Management API to control your multi-tenant architecture.
• Flexible network architecture: Aggregate and create VLAN in a snap, while fully controlling how the network is presented to the underlying VM. Establish and simulate complex networking environments without paying for expensive, supplemental equipment.
• Everything, on one machine: Test how your networking setup reacts to changing traffic conditions, failover events, and dynamic packet flows. Manage multiple GSLB-enabled DNS zones, while running the client and DNS servers all on your PC. Take control of your infrastructure HAProxy ALOHA ships with a host of GUI and API-driven management tools to keep your infrastructure running smoothly.
• Standards-based administration: Take advantage of support for SNMP, NTP, Syslog, and VRRP to keep your load-balancing setup synchronized, manageable, and reliable.
• Interfaces for any preference: Manage configuration, provisioning, monitoring, and diagnostics via web-based interface or the Network Administration API. Connect directly via serial port or remotely via SSH.
• Configuration templating: Deploy your applications in minutes without having to write complex configuration sections from scratch. Quickly configure network interfaces, link aggregation, VLAN membership, IP-related parameters, and more.
• VLAN tagging: Identify and isolate traffic by assigning unique VLANs to groups of devices and their ethernet frames. Clearly track your network packets and control traffic flows, while boosting performance and security.