Pound (networking)
| Developer(s) | Apsis GmbH (to 3.0e)[1] Sergei Poznyakoff (4.x)[2] |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.5[3]
/ February 12, 2023 |
| Written in | GPL |
| Website | github |
Pound is a lightweight
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, 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 httpones
- IPv6 support
- can load balance from IPv6 clients to IPv4 servers and vice versa
- 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
- Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL/TLS certificate negotiation
- 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
- Apache Traffic Server
- Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
- Comparison of web server software
- Internet Cache Protocol
References
- ^ "ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v3.0e". hostpoint.ch (Mailing list). 2020-10-05. Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Dokuchaev, Alexey (2023-02-24). "www/pound: the port had been updated to version 4.5". FreeBSD. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
Apsis GmbH, original upstream, had stopped the development and welcomed Sergey Poznyakoff to pick up and further maintain the project, which is now hosted on GitHub.
- ^ Poznyakoff, Sergey (2023-02-12). "Releases - graygnuorg/pound". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
External links
- Old Pound website (archived December 2022)
- Pound mailing list (partially archived October 2021)
- Pound reverse proxy "how to" with examples
- Web archive: Pound Best Practice Deployment
- "Simple webserver load balancing with pound". debian-administration.org. 20 Sep 2005. Archived from the original on 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2019-11-06.