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HAProxy

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?..
High Availability

What can we learn from the recent Facebook outage?

On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp...
Comparisons

Are you crazy to buy a hardware load balancer? Maybe not...

There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?..
GSLB

Active / active load balancing, do you need it?

In the load balancing world active/active has multiple meanings. And once you've got that hurdle out the way, you need to then work out whether you actually need it...
AWS / Azure / GCP

Rethinking cloud native load balancing

In this blog we put public cloud provider AWS under the lens, and highlight some important considerations for those weighing up their cloud options...
AWS / Azure / GCP

Cloud load balancer: Why would I use my own?

The assumption is that the load balancer is inherently provided with your cloud infrastructure but this is not always the case...
WAF

Extending ModSecurity: How to add completely custom WAF functionality

In this example, I’m going to add a new transformation function to ModSecurity to calculate the Scrabble score of a variable. This will allow us to block HTTP requests containing query string parameters with a Scrabble score above a chosen threshold...