Pound is a real reverse proxy and loadbalancer

Some time ago I wrote about setting up lighttpd as a reverse proxy and came up with several problems like its mod_proxy module that caches every request in ram and thus screws up the servers’ ram whenever a big file is requested so I was looking for another solution and I found one.

The software is called pound which is developed by a swiss company called APSIS and its only purpose is to act as a pure reverse proxy and loadbalancer for http and https. Its configuration is very straight forward and done in a minute if you know what you want. The man page is well written and easy to understand.

I love it ;).

Kind regards,

Andreas.