Haproxy

The idea

I’ve run web servers at home for a quite long time. I used to have my LAMP system (compiled to fit my needs) running on Slackware and it covered all my needs for many years. But during the last years I found myself running very different flavors of Application Servers and I found that my LAMP setup was not flexible enough to deal with such an heterogeneous systems.

I wanted to have a solution that would allow me to run different web servers (apache, nginx, Jetty, flask…), different Application Servers (tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, Django, perl scripts, etc..) all of them isolated as much as possible from the others.

Since this is a home solution and I cannot afford to have a rack full of blades at home, all these services should run in commodity hardware. I’ve chosen to run it on a laptop, that gives me a UPS service (battery) although it has the drawback of not much CPU power and (most important)  not much RAM. Of course, the solution could be extrapolated to multiple machines, having the ability to grow either horizontally or vertically. But for now, this solution will be confined into a single server 🙁

My ideal solution should, if possible, cover these needs: