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Find step-by-step technical guides and tutorials for load balancer configuration. Learn how to master Layer 4, 7 and GSLB, automate deployments with our API/CLI, and configure advanced features like SSL termination, health checks, and HA clustering.
Tom Inglis-Starck
How can I load balance UDP with open source HAProxy?
UDP is a connectionless protocol, meaning it doesn't establish a formal connection or 'handshake' before sending data...
Open source
HAProxy
How-tos
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Finally, a simple way to convert MaxMind GeoIP Database files to the legacy DAT format!
The MaxMind GeoLite database has always been popular, as the only free (as in beer) source of information to try and figure out what country your website requests are coming from...
Security
WAF
How-tos
Joe Robinson
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Small workloads can sometimes create a unique set of problems that are hard to solve...
Storage
How-tos
Performance
Damian Pacuszka
IPv6 and Loadbalancer.org: Finally making friends with those impossibly long addresses
With 2^128 possible addresses, IPv6 is basically the networking equivalent of having infinite closet space...
How-tos
Dave Saunders
Extending the ModSecurity WAF, with Denial Of Service protection — using HAProxy
Our long time partner Metaswitch, desperately needed to stop brute force login attacks on the enterprise phone system that they supply to large telecom companies...
WAF
Security
HAProxy
Neil Stone
How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution
Imagine explaining the issue to a friend. Be specific. Instead of "The system isn't working," tell us what you're trying to do and what happens instead...
How-tos
Damian Pacuszka
Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications
DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...
GSLB
How-tos
Kevin-Lucas Stroe
A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy
With numerous options available, choosing and configuring the right tool can be daunting...
How-tos
Integrations
HAProxy
Teodor Dodita
A comprehensive guide to setting up and using Always On VPN (AOVPN)
Always On VPN (AOVPN) provides a seamless always-on connection that boosts security and the user experience...
Microsoft
How-tos
High Availability
Damian Pacuszka
What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?
Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..
How-tos
Open source
Security
Greg Ashwell
How to secure high availability for smaller-scale medical imaging PACS deployments
In the world of medical imaging, where Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) solutions are vital for the storage and management of critical medical imaging data, high availability, even in smaller-scale environments, is imperative...
Healthcare
High Availability
How-tos
Andrei Grigoras
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...
HAProxy
How-tos
Layer 7