HAProxy
Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
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At a glance
HAProxy quick facts
- Health score
- 20/100 STALE
- Stars
- Not measured
- Last commit
- Not measured
- Latest release
- Not measured
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
HAProxy scores 20/100, #18 of 19 in Web Servers: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- unknown
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between Apache HTTP Server (#17) and Lighttpd (#19) .
Details
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