User:Pmc/Comparison of load balancer software

Load balancers are reverse proxy servers or application firewalls which have been designed to provide a front-end to application servers that usually run services on the Internet or using Internet-related protocols.

Generally fairly small and simple applications, load balancers are generally intended to be able to scale to a much greater load/volume than than the application servers they represent.

Overview
A list of notable reverse proxy servers follows: