Pound (networking)

Pound
Developer(s) Apsis GmbH
Stable release
2.7 / January 26, 2015 (2015-01-26)
Written in C
Operating system Unix
Type open source
License GPL
Website www.apsis.ch/pound/

Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. The original intent on developing Pound was to allow distributing the load among several Zope servers running on top of ZEO (Zope Extensible Object). However, Pound is not limited to Zope-based installations. Using regular expression matching on the requested URLs, Pound can pass different kinds of requests to different backend server groups. A few more of its most important features:

Pound is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and can be used free of charge even in business environments.

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