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How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
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How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid

A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance.

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How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
HAProxy

How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid

A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...
Neil Stone
• 4 mins
A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy
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A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy

With numerous options available, choosing and configuring the right tool can be daunting...
Kevin-Lucas Stroe
• 18 mins
How to limit connections with HAProxy, iptables or nftables
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How to limit connections with HAProxy, iptables or nftables

Recently I was asked to develop a method to rate limit connections passing through our load balancer to just one!   Why? One of our customers had a critical piece of proprietary software in their ar..
Andrei Grigoras
• 6 mins
See who's really visiting your website: Achieving IP transparency with the Proxy Protocol
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See who's really visiting your website: Achieving IP transparency with the Proxy Protocol

There are a few different ways to achieve IP transparency, but one of the most effective is with the help of the great Proxy Protocol...
Damian Pacuszka
• 5 mins
HAProxy reverse proxy: the what, when, and how
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HAProxy reverse proxy: the what, when, and how

Perplexed by proxy?! Ruffled by reverse proxy?! We’ve all been there. Honestly, sometimes I think the language we use makes things sound way more complicated than they actually are...
Andrei Grigoras
• 4 mins
Why you don't need to worry about the novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)
Security

Why you don't need to worry about the novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)

We've had a few concerned customers asking about the Google disclosure of the recent huge DDoS attack, and the potential underlying vulnerability in some HTTP/2 servers...
Malcolm Turnbull
• 2 mins
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
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How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations

SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
Joe Robinson
• 7 mins
man at computer looking at reporting data
Automation

Using Grafana with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

How many times have you looked at the HAProxy report and thought, what on earth is this all about?! What are the busiest times on my Loadbalancer? Which Real Server is busy? How much traffic is going through my VIPs?..
Jeff Gosden
• 5 mins
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How Loadbalancer.org helped this customer migrate seamlessly from Snapt Nova

Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications...
Joshua Turnbull
• 6 mins
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Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...
Jeff Gosden
• 6 mins
Snapt load balancer not working
HAProxy

Oh SNAPT! Where's my load balancer?

I was genuinely shocked and a little sad hearing the news that SNAPT has gone bust. They were a great company, with a nice product and more importantly — nice people...
Jeff Gosden
• 7 mins
Tailoring — The modern way to make your product indestructible
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Tailoring — The modern way to make your product indestructible

Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability...
Jake Borman
• 4 mins
How to rate limit with HAProxy Stick Tables and the WAF
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How to rate limit with HAProxy Stick Tables and the WAF

A while ago I was asked if it would be possible to apply some general rate limiting in HAProxy and the WAF, in order to help prevent DOS-style attacks on a customer's servers...
Daniel Tighe
• 6 mins
Navigating the open source journey: When free is awesome, and why commercial solutions have their place
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Navigating the open source journey: When free is awesome, and why commercial solutions have their place

At Loadbalancer.org, our heroes are open source. And for good reason. Open source software plays an intrinsic part in our company, products, and services...
Jake Borman
• 5 mins
HAProxy ACL rules don't have to be painful with Loadbalancer
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HAProxy ACL rules don't have to be painful with Loadbalancer

We love complex rules. Although, we have seen some pretty scary config files...
Oliver Warren
• 5 mins
I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?
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I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?

All Secure Web Gateways require client IP transparency in order to implement any proper kind of security and authentication. Which can be a real pain if you have a load balancer in the middle...
Neil Stone
• 4 mins
A+ Qualys with HAProxy — The Secret Sauce
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A+ Qualys with HAProxy — The Secret Sauce

So you're probably here because you want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys. A quick fun fact: did you know the A+ and A rating are in fact the same?..
Oliver Warren
• 4 mins
How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAProxy
Microsoft

How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAProxy

Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable...
Andrei Grigoras
• 3 mins
Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?
HAProxy

Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?

Here our Loadbalancer.org Founder, Malcolm Turnbull, offers advice to anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer...
Malcolm Turnbull
• 3 mins
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
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How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux

Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
Andrei Grigoras
• 3 mins
Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy
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Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy

We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...
Peter Statham
• 7 mins
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…
Performance

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…

Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...
Andrew Howe
• 3 mins
Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020)
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Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020)

A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers...
Tom Hopkins
• 1 min
How to write an external health check script for HAProxy
HAProxy

How to write an external health check script for HAProxy

Loadbalancer.org were the original sponsors of the external health check mechanism in HAProxy. We think it's an invaluable tool when you need something a bit special...
Damian Pacuszka
• 10 mins

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