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This is not a centrally managed service, and users have to maintain and update the services themselves. You are welcome to ask in the #peer-support channel on EWC rocketchat for feedbacks.

HAProxy is a high-performance, open source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) applications. Users can use HAProxy to distribute workloads and improve website and application performance.

HAProxy features

HAProxy includes the following services:

Layer 4 TCP and Layer 7 HTTP load balancing.
Protocol support for HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC and FastCGI.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security termination.
Dynamic SSL certificate storage.
Content switching and inspection.
Transparent proxying.
Detailed logging.
Command-line interface (CLI) for server management.
HTTP authentication.
Multithreading.
URL rewrites.
Health checking.
Rate limits.

HAProxy Config

There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global, defaults, frontend, and backend. These four sections define how the server as a whole performs, what your default settings are, and how client requests are received and routed to your backend servers.