HAProxy - HAProxy is the best open source load balancer without a doubt

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?

Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications.

With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment.

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.

Want simpler, more flexible, more durable, tailored high availability solutions?

Rate limiting in HAProxy and the WAF, to prevent DOS-style attacks on customer servers.

How open source and enterprise solutions differ, and when to use them.

A rundown of the new enhancements to the WebUI as part of our 8.6 release, which is going to make the management of your load balancer far simpler.

HAProxy Proxy Protocol workarounds and techniques to fix a Secure Web Gateway routing problem.

Want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys? Read on.

Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool. It, therefore, needs to be highly available and scalable. Here's how you can achieve that.

Here our Loadbalancer.org Founder, Malcolm Turnbull, offers advice to anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer.

Follow our clear instructions if you want to use HAProxy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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.

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.

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.

We recently attended the inaugural HAProxy Conference in Amsterdam. Loadbalancer.org are proud to be part of the HAProxy community and we were glad to be involved with the event.

We recently released a completely rewritten version of our Windows Feedback Agent Check for HAProxy. This blog sets out to explore the issues caused by the previous Feedback Agent, and more importantly why the new Feedback Agent is better. Where can I get it? (Updated 01/09/2022) As always

There's a saying you've probably heard: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Health checks are an important part of load balancing your application, and in many other circumstances too. We are often

The Christmas tree is still up, you’ve barely swept away the used party poppers and champagne corks from your New Year celebrations - and already, there’s a new security issue to be aware of. A vulnerability has been found which could enable a hacker to crash HAProxy when

A critical security issue has been found in HAProxy, leaving certain systems vulnerable to remote attack. We want to keep you informed, and we understand that this news might cause you some anxiety. But be reassured - most of our customers won’t be affected.

If you Google 'modern load balancer', you will quickly find the awesome blog from Matt Klein — followed by some marketing fluff from AVI Networks and NGINX+. It's really annoying when people believe — that something traditional (proven to work) is somehow worse, than something that is modern (looks like a cool

The best thing about HAProxy is its single process event-driven architecture. It gives amazing performance in most real world scenarios and happily saturates gigabit + networks... Related blog: Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets... But the single process design is also the

Load balancing NFS is a real pain — especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos.

As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAProxy, it’s in my interests to combat the avalanche of NGINX+ marketing propaganda that I've seen over the last year. Let's call it an attempt to skewer fake news.