Top 5 Open-Source Load Balancers 2021

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Haproxy

HAProxy provides many distinct features such as it processes an enormous number of tasks in a millisecond, offers minimal cost for context switch and memory usage, ability to instantly detect a threat or event on tens of thousands of connections, efficient use of the CPU cycles, and memory bandwidth, optimized timer queue, optimized HTTP header analysis, GZip Compression, avoidance of expensive system calls by carrying out most of the tasks at user end such as file-descriptor enabling/disabling, time reading, buffer aggregation, etc. HAProxy provides improved health checks i.e., check agent, SSL, scripted TCP, etc. Due to the platform’s high-security assurance, exceptional performance, and high availability, it is commended as one of the leading load balancers in the market.

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Traefik

The modern and efficient, Traefik is an open-source reverse proxy and load balancer that provides a simple routing platform without engaging any complexities. Most popular among the Github Fanclub, Traefik owns approximately 27.7k Github stars.

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3

nginx

The founder, Igor Sysoev developed the ultimate diverse solution that served numerous and multiple solutions. NGINX is a commendable Load Balancer along with being an exceptional web hosting server. NGINX was launched in 2002, and during that time, the problem of handling ten thousand concurrent connections, i.e., the so-called C10K problem, was a major issue and much-concerned topic, NGINX brought a solution to this. The Load Balancer provided a web hosting server with Load Balancer that helped enable a lot of businesses and other web platforms. Currently, the diverse, open-source, and yet cross-platform compatible webserver, NGINX hosts more than 30% of all the current functioning websites.

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4

Seesaw

Seesaw is another top-performing open-source Load Balancer ensuring efficient website performance. The intuitive and user-friendly Load Balancer is very easy to use along with ensuring Multiple VLAN support, anycast, and Direct Server returns are managed through a centralized configuration. HAProxy and NGINX operate up to layer seven, whereas Seesaw operates at layer 4, thereby simply catering to UDP, TCP, SCTP, AH, & ESP traffic, and not going up till the HTTP header or TLS termination, etc.

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5

SKUDONET

Available for all platforms, ZEVENET was founded in 2012 and is currently among the list of emerging favorites around the globe. Opting for easiness, it’s human nature to get swiftly attracted to the paradigms that are easy to understand and user-friendly. And as is the motto of the ZEVENET Load Balancer, it provides its users an intuitive paradigm to meet user’s load balancing requirements.

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