Projects

Varnish

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems.

tomcat-connectors (JK, mod_jk)

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache Tomcat Connectors produces web server plugins to connect Apache HTTPS, IIS or Sun web server with backend server via the AJP protocol. The most important backend example is Apache Tomcat.

HAProxy

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web applications under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing.

Perlbal

Reverse proxy load balancer and web server, extensible (plugins!), and full of fun tricks like internal (user-transparent) redirects. Can have its config changed on the fly without restarts, and supports a lot of management port commands for observability.

Firewall Builder

Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, which provides for a consistent ... [More] abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf, Cisco PIX, and FWSM. [Less]

Pgpool

pgpool is a connection pool server for PostgreSQL. pgpool runs between PostgreSQL's clients(front ends) and servers(back ends). A PostgreSQL client can connect to pgpool as if it were a standard PostgreSQL server. pgpool supports replication, failover, switchover, load balancing. pgpool-II ... [More] is the new generation of pgpool. It supports any number of nodes, query splitting, recovery, and new administrative commands. pgpool-ha is a set of heartbeat scripts for pgpool. pgpoolAdmin is a web administration interface for pgpool-I and pgpool-II. [Less]

Pound

Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution.

Vyatta

Vyatta software is a Linux-based, open networking (advanced routing & security) solution that leverages x86 hardware and components to deliver a flexible, affordable alternative to Cisco 1800 through 7200 series routers. Vyatta is a enterprise class, commercial open source offering that can ... [More] deliver BGP, OSPF, RIP routing, firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, Intrusion Prevention and more that can scale from the branch office to the service provider edge for a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives. Being software-based also allows Vyatta to deliver a full suite of Layer-3 routing and security services to VMware and Xen virtualization platforms. [Less]

MySQL Proxy

MySQL Proxy is a simple program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for unlimited uses; common ones include: load balancing; failover; query analysis; query filtering and modification; and many more.

ESIGate (Website Assembling Toolkit)

This toolkit allows developpers to assemble several web applications into a single one. Pages are build using contents, resources and page templates coming from the original applications. The applications may use different technologies (Java, PHP...)