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When is an ACL not an ACL? When it's an HAProxy ACL...
If you're from a network background or are of a certain age (or both!), you will have come across Access Control Lists or ACLs...
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HAProxy
Dive into the world of open source HAProxy with configurations, tutorials, and best practices. As a core component of our Layer 7 solution, learn to master ACL rules, reverse proxy, SSL termination, and advanced features like rate limiting.
Jake Borman
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...
Open source
HAProxy
Oliver Warren
HAProxy ACL rules don't have to be painful with Loadbalancer
We love complex rules. Although, we have seen some pretty scary config files...
Layer 7
HAProxy
How-tos
Neil Stone
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...
How-tos
HAProxy
Layer 7
Oliver Warren
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?..
HAProxy
How-tos
Layer 7
Andrei Grigoras
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...
Microsoft
Layer 7
HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?
Controversial advice for anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer...
HAProxy
Open source
Andrei Grigoras
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
How-tos
HAProxy
Open source
Peter Statham
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...
HAProxy
Open source
How-tos
Himakshi Goswami
How to tackle bugs and vulnerabilities – a solutions architect’s opinion
Dealing with bugs and vulnerabilities is quite common in the tech space. Aaron West, the head of Solutions at Loadbalancer.org shares some insights about our approach of tackling such issues, and more...
Open source
Security
HAProxy
Andrew Howe
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...
Performance
HAProxy
Storage
Tom Hopkins
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...
Security
HAProxy
Open source
Damian Pacuszka
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...
HAProxy
Open source
How-tos