Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. Using regular expression matching on the requested URLs, Pound can pass different kinds of requests to different backend server groups. A few more of its most important features:
- detects when a backend server fails or recovers, and bases its load balancing decisions on this information: if a backend server fails, it will not receive requests until it recovers
- decrypts https requests to http ones
- rejects incorrect requests
- can be used in a chroot environment
- has no special requirements concerning which web server software or browser to use
- supports virtual hosts
- configurable
Pound is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and can be used free of charge even in business environments.
See also
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- Crossroads
- HAProxy
- mod_proxy_balancer for Apache httpd
- Pure Load Balancer
