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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...
Mark Brookes
SSL offload testing with HAProxy and Stunnel
There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...
Open source
HAProxy
How-tos
Ben Cabot
3 ways to send HAProxy health check email alerts: Configuration how-to
The ideal way to monitor the health of the real servers is to to have a dedicated monitoring system in place such as Nagios. However this isn’t always an option, so for some they require the loadbalancer to send an alert...
HAProxy
Open source
How-tos
Aaron West
HAProxy email alerts guide
As of haproxy-1.6-dev1 it is now possible to send email alerts directly from HAProxy thanks to the excellent work done for us by Simon Horman...
HAProxy
How-tos
Open source
Scott McKeown
Setting up HAProxy with Transparent Mode on Centos 6.x
Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy...
HAProxy
High Availability
Open source
Malcolm Turnbull
Load Balancer performance: Benchmarking HAProxy on EC2 (Quick and Dirty Style)
I get quite frustrated with benchmarks because they are very hard to perform properly, and even when you do them properly its very hard to get any useful data from them...
HAProxy
Open source
AWS / Azure / GCP
Andrew Zak
Load balancing Windows Terminal Server — HAProxy and RDP Cookies or Microsoft Connection Broker
When you have users depending on Windows Terminal Services for their main desktop, it's a good idea to have more than one Terminal Server. RDP, however, is not an easy protocol to load balance...
Open source
Microsoft
HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Transparent proxy of SSL traffic using Pound to HAProxy backend patch and how-to
I've previously blogged about how to get TPROXY and HAProxy working nicely together, but what if you want to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to use HAProxy to insert cookies in the standard HTTP stream to the backend servers?..
HAProxy
How-tos
Open source
Malcolm Turnbull
Configure HAProxy with TPROXY kernel for full transparent proxy
If you use HAProxy as the load balancer then all of the backend servers see the traffic coming from the IP address of the load balancer...
HAProxy
How-tos
Open source
Malcolm Turnbull
LVS Local node patch for Linux 2.6.25, Centos 5 kernel build how-to
Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node...
How-tos
Open source