HAProxy
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“an haproxy load balancer was much, much better on HTTP load balancing than Python code was”
“using NGinx on the front-end and HAProxy on the back-end to do the load balancing and health checks”
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“Use a local forward proxy, e.g., stunnel, haproxy, etc.”
“After I saw that it worked, I started using other software like haproxy”
“I use haproxy acl rules and the use_backend directive to enforce security policy and routing.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers 2 mentions
- We should be more ambitious with the software we build 1 mention
- Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016) 1 mention
- Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors 1 mention
- Jellyfin 12.0 1 mention
- TLS certificates for internal services done right 1 mention
Data: haproxy.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“an haproxy load balancer was much, much better on HTTP load balancing than Python code was”
“using NGinx on the front-end and HAProxy on the back-end to do the load balancing and health checks”
“Use a local forward proxy, e.g., stunnel, haproxy, etc.”
“Initially, I stuffed jellyfin (and a bunch of other stuff) behind HAProxy[0], which was fine.”
“haproxy is the largest, tinyproxy is the smallest”
“After I saw that it worked, I started using other software like haproxy”
“I use haproxy acl rules and the use_backend directive to enforce security policy and routing.”
“Would need something like HAProxy to correctly handle failover for NFS though?”
“These days if I have a lot of rewrites I do that in HAProxy or NGinx in maps”
“often have HAProxy in front of it on many nodes”