Case Study: Willhaben improves security and performance with HAProxy Enterprise

Willhaben handles 2.5 billion page impressions a month with HAProxy Enterprise

Willhaben, Austria's largest online marketplace, faced challenges scaling its hardware-based load balancer to handle growing traffic and improve security. The company needed a more secure, high-performance solution to support its move to Kubernetes and the implementation of HTTP/2, while also needing to protect against problematic search crawlers.

Willhaben implemented HAProxy Enterprise, which provided enhanced security with SSL offloading, hitless reloads for Kubernetes, and seamless HTTP/2 support. The solution's Javascript Challenge Module effectively managed crawler issues. With HAProxy Enterprise, Willhaben achieved superior performance, reinforced security, and gained access to dedicated support, allowing them to reliably handle 2.5 billion page impressions per month.

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