Subsecond datacenter failover: revolutionizing high-availability with HAProxy

As the biggest truck parts remanufacturer in the US, Weller Truck Parts boosted our uptime and saved money using HAProxy Enterprise with HAProxy Fusion Control Plane. Our story shows how a smaller company can get world-class results with limited resources. We'll walk through our vendor-agnostic evaluation process, which led us to select HAProxy as the best and most cost-effective solution.

What you'll learn:

• Connecting load balancers to Aruba routers using BIRD for better routing
• Why Anycast beats DNS for critical services (we hit five 9's uptime!)
• How we let HAProxy handle everything from health checks to routing decisions
• Turning our unused backup site into an active site in just 6 months, at 1/5 the cost
• Setting up active/passive data centers that keep both IT and compliance happy

We looked at many options before choosing HAProxy as our best bet. Starting simple and then moving to HAProxy Fusion gave us a solution that keeps our systems running smoothly while setting us up for the next 5-10 years of growth. Our approach demonstrates how businesses of any size can achieve enterprise-grade networking resilience with the right technology choices.