Free HAProxy Load Balancing & SSL Termination with TierHive VPS

Looking for HAProxy load balancing without the complexity of managing configuration files? TierHive includes free HAProxy load balancing and automatic SSL termination with every account. No haproxy.cfg editing, no manual certificate management, no additional costs.

What You Get with TierHive's Free HAProxy Service

TierHive provides enterprise-grade HAProxy load balancing as a built-in platform feature:

  • Automatic SSL/TLS certificates - Let's Encrypt integration with auto-renewal
  • Web UI configuration - Manage domains and backends through your control panel
  • Multiple global endpoints - Deploy HAProxy instances across our locations for faster TTFB
  • Health checks and failover - Automatic backend monitoring and traffic rerouting
  • Load balancing algorithms - Round-robin, sticky sessions, and more
  • Zero additional cost - Included free with your TierHive VPS hosting

How TierHive HAProxy Works

When you add a domain to TierHive's HAProxy service:

  1. Configure your domain through the web UI
  2. TierHive automatically provisions SSL certificates via Let's Encrypt
  3. Point your domain's DNS to TierHive's HAProxy endpoints
  4. Configure backend servers (your TierHive VPS instances in your private subnet)
  5. HAProxy distributes traffic across your backends with health checking

Your TierHive VPS instances receive traffic on their private /24 subnet IPs. Those VPS can then forward traffic to your own external infrastructure if needed, making TierHive HAProxy an ideal gateway layer.

No Configuration File Management

Traditional HAProxy requires:

  • Editing haproxy.cfg syntax
  • Manual SSL certificate installation
  • Certificate renewal scripts
  • Reloading HAProxy after config changes
  • Understanding backend/frontend declarations

TierHive eliminates all of this. Configure everything through the web interface. Add domains, configure backends, adjust load balancing - all point-and-click.

Automatic SSL Certificate Management

Every domain added to TierHive HAProxy gets:

  • Automatic Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate provisioning
  • Automatic certificate renewal before expiration
  • HTTPS enforcement options
  • SNI (Server Name Indication) support for multiple domains

No manual certificate installation. No renewal scripts. No expired certificates taking down your site.

Multi-Region HAProxy Distribution

Deploy your HAProxy configuration across TierHive's global locations:

  • Beauharnois, Canada
  • Frankfurt, Germany
  • London, United Kingdom

Visitors connect to the nearest HAProxy instance for reduced latency and faster time to first byte. Your backends can be in any location, with HAProxy handling the geographic distribution.

Load Balancing for Multi-VPS Deployments

Running multiple application servers for redundancy? TierHive HAProxy makes load balancing simple:

  1. Deploy 2-4 identical application VPS instances in your private subnet
  2. Add your domain to HAProxy via the web UI
  3. Configure all VPS instances as backends
  4. HAProxy distributes traffic and handles failover automatically

Your application becomes highly available without complex networking configuration.

Health Checks and Automatic Failover

TierHive HAProxy continuously monitors your backend servers:

  • Regular health checks to each backend
  • Automatic removal of failed backends from rotation
  • Traffic rerouted to healthy backends instantly
  • Failed backends automatically re-added when they recover

Your users never see downtime from individual server failures.

Use Cases for TierHive HAProxy

High-Availability Web Applications

Deploy your web application across multiple TierHive VPS instances. HAProxy distributes traffic and provides failover if any instance fails.

SSL Termination Gateway

Offload SSL/TLS encryption to HAProxy. Your application servers handle plain HTTP internally, reducing computational overhead.

Blue-Green Deployments

Run two versions of your application simultaneously. Switch traffic between versions instantly through HAProxy configuration changes.

Geographic Load Distribution

Deploy application servers in multiple TierHive regions. HAProxy directs users to the nearest endpoint for optimal performance.

Gateway to External Infrastructure

Use TierHive VPS instances as secure gateways. HAProxy terminates SSL and forwards to your VPS, which then proxies to your external infrastructure.

API Gateway

Put HAProxy in front of your API servers. Distribute load, and provide SSL termination for your API endpoints.

TierHive VPS Integration

HAProxy backends connect to your TierHive VPS instances via your private /24 subnet. Each TierHive customer receives a dedicated private network (10.x.x.x addresses) that your VPS instances use for internal communication.

Benefits of private subnet integration:

  • Backend servers not directly exposed to internet
  • Secure internal networking between VPS instances
  • NAT port forwarding for public access when needed
  • Your VPS instances can forward traffic to external infrastructure

Getting Started with TierHive HAProxy

Setting up load balancing takes minutes:

  1. Sign up for TierHive and claim your free trial credits
  2. Deploy your VPS instances in your chosen locations
  3. Navigate to HAProxy section in the control panel
  4. Add your domain and complete domain validation
  5. Configure backends pointing to your VPS private IPs
  6. Update DNS to point to TierHive HAProxy endpoints
  7. Enable SSL certificates, it provisions automatically within minutes

Your load-balanced, SSL-secured application is live.

Web UI Configuration

All HAProxy management happens through the TierHive web interface:

  • Add and remove domains
  • Configure backend servers
  • Adjust load balancing algorithms
  • Monitor backend health status
  • View SSL certificate status and expiration
  • Enable or disable backends without deletion

No SSH required. No configuration file syntax. No manual certificate handling.

Pricing

TierHive HAProxy load balancing and SSL termination is included free with your VPS hosting. You only pay for your VPS resources using TierHive's hourly billing:

  • True hourly billing - pay only for hours used
  • No monthly minimums for HAProxy service
  • No per-domain fees
  • No SSL certificate costs
  • No traffic charges for HAProxy

Deploy a minimal VPS from $0.000135 per hour or $0.10 per month to use as an HAProxy backend, or run production workloads on larger instances.

Why TierHive HAProxy vs Self-Managed

Self-Managed HAProxy:

  • Manual haproxy.cfg editing and syntax
  • Manual SSL certificate installation
  • Renewal automation setup required
  • Configuration testing and validation
  • HAProxy reload management
  • Single point of failure without additional setup

TierHive HAProxy:

  • Web UI configuration
  • Automatic SSL provisioning and renewal
  • Multi-region distribution included
  • Health checking built-in
  • Automatic failover
  • No additional setup or management

Real-World Deployment Example

A typical high-availability web application setup:

  1. Deploy 3 TierHive VPS instances (starting at 128MB RAM, 1 vCPU each) across different locations
  2. Install your web application on all 3 instances
  3. Add your domain to TierHive HAProxy
  4. Configure all 3 VPS private IPs as backends
  5. Point your domain DNS to TierHive HAProxy endpoints

Result:

  • Visitors connect to nearest HAProxy instance globally
  • Traffic distributed across all 3 application servers
  • If any server fails, traffic automatically reroutes
  • SSL/TLS handled by HAProxy automatically
  • Total cost from: ~$0.000405/hour (~$0.30/month for 24/7 operation)

Advanced Features

TierHive HAProxy supports:

  • Sticky sessions - Route returning visitors to same backend
  • Custom health check intervals - Configure monitoring frequency
  • Backend weighting - Send more traffic to more powerful servers
  • Multiple domains per backend set - Serve multiple sites from same VPS pool
  • HTTPS to HTTP backend - Terminate SSL at HAProxy, plain HTTP to backends

Start Using Free HAProxy Load Balancing Today

Stop managing HAProxy configuration files and SSL certificates manually. TierHive provides enterprise-grade load balancing and automatic SSL termination through an easy web interface.

Sign up for TierHive now, claim your free trial credits, and deploy your first load-balanced application. HAProxy configuration, SSL certificates, and multi-region distribution included at no extra cost.

Ready to get started? Create your TierHive account, deploy your VPS instances, and configure HAProxy load balancing through the web UI. No credit card required for trial.