https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/udp/ Recent content in Udp on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-12-self-hosted-udp-load-balancing-haproxy-pen-balance-guide/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-12-self-hosted-udp-load-balancing-haproxy-pen-balance-guide/ <p>TCP load balancing is a solved problem — HAProxy, Nginx, and Envoy dominate the space. But UDP load balancing is a different beast. UDP is connectionless, stateless, and has no handshake to track. This makes UDP load balancing fundamentally different from TCP, requiring specialized tools that understand session persistence without connection state. This guide compares three open-source UDP load balancing solutions.</p>