HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high availability environments. It features connection persistence through HTTP cookies, load balancing, header addition, modification, deletion both ways. It has request blocking capabilities and provides interface to display server status.
HAProioxy is great, but the Linux Mint version is very much outdated, because of the underlying Ubuntu version. It is better to install HAProxy in a different way. Maybe the next version of Mint will improve this.