# Do you still offer an actual hardware load balancer, or has it all gone software?

Some parts of our infrastructure still favor dedicated appliances, while others are moving to software. I'd
like to understand whether HAProxy supports both models and where each one makes sense.

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- Posted at: 6 days ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Both are available. HAProxy ALOHA ships as a 1U hardware appliance if you want a dedicated box with predictable throughput and patented PacketShield DDoS filtering at line rate. The same Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing also comes as a virtual load balancer for VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM if you would rather not rack hardware. Both are built on HAProxy Enterprise, so the load balancing matches either way. The one hardware-specific piece is line-rate PacketShield DDoS filtering, which runs at wire speed on the HAProxy ALOHA hardware load balancer.
Learn more on our HAProxy ALOHA hardware load balancer page - https://www.haproxy.com/products/haproxy-aloha

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- Posted at: 5 days ago




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