HAProxy

Annu Sroa

• 08 Jan 2019

New year, new vulnerability: HAProxy critical security update

An incorrect frame length check could result in a read-past-bound which can cause a crash...

HAProxy Security Open source

Annu Sroa

• 20 Sep 2018

HAProxy critical security update — to avoid simple(ish) DoS attack (20 September 2018)

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...

HAProxy Security

Neil Stone

• 01 May 2018

Does the new multi-threaded support in HAProxy finally solve the 10G problem?

It’s no big secret that a single processor can only handle so much processing in a given time. So what happens when you reach the limits of what a single processor can handle? Simple, you add more processors...

Open source HAProxy

Thorsten Wetzig

• 27 Apr 2018

How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...

AWS / Azure / GCP Security High Availability

Tom Kacperski

• 21 Mar 2018

Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC (aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAProxy)

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...

Open source High Availability HAProxy

Malcolm Turnbull

• 22 Nov 2017

NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?

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...

Comparisons HAProxy

Mark Brookes

• 29 Sep 2017

Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...

HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!..

HAProxy Open source

Andrei Grigoras

• 18 Aug 2017

How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy

Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy...

Application Management Microsoft HAProxy

Aaron West

• 15 Aug 2017

Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy: How to configure

Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate...

How-tos Security HAProxy

Jake Borman

• 11 Jan 2017

Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016

HAProxy Technologies' ALOHA Pocket is a full-featured ALOHA Load Balancer running on a light USB-powered hardware that easily fits in a pocket, meaning it's possible to carry it everywhere to run tests and demos...

HAProxy Comparisons Events

Ben Cabot

• 28 Sep 2016

Transparent HAProxy in Azure using TProxy

HAProxy is an excellent choice if you need layer 7 functionality, but its a full reverse-proxy, so the application thinks that all of the traffic is coming from HAProxys IP - rather than the clients...

Open source AWS / Azure / GCP HAProxy

Aaron West

• 15 Apr 2016

How to stop TPROXY when used with HAProxy breaking clients in the real server subnet

Once HAProxy is running transparently, it will allow the real server to see the client IP so the real server will reply directly back to the client bypassing the load balancer...

Open source How-tos HAProxy