Audience
Companies searching for a Load Balancing solution
About Pound
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away. Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading certificate file(s) on start, if required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Windows
Support
Online
Pound Product Features
Load Balancing
Authentication
Automatic Configuration
Content Caching
Predefined Protocols
Redundancy Checking
Reverse Proxy
Content Routing
Data Compression
Health Monitoring
SSL Offload
Schedulers