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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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Layer 7
Dive deeper into Layer 7 load balancing. Learn how to utilize application logic for content-aware routing (HTTP/HTTPS), enhance security with WAF and Single Sign-On (SSO), and implement advanced configurations using HAProxy.
Dave Saunders
Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques
The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..
Comparisons
High Availability
GSLB
Jeff Gosden
Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance
With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...
How-tos
HAProxy
Integrations
Daniel Tighe
How to rate limit with HAProxy Stick Tables and the WAF
A while ago I was asked if it would be possible to apply some general rate limiting in HAProxy and the WAF, in order to help prevent DOS-style attacks on a customer's servers...
HAProxy
WAF
How-tos
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
Andrew Howe
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...
WAF
Open source
Security
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
Oliver Warren
How to achieve client source IP transparency with your load balancer
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case...
How-tos
Security
Layer 4
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
Himakshi Goswami
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
Performance
High Availability
Layer 7
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