Load Balancing VMware Horizon's UDP and TCP Traffic: A Guide with HAProxy
Learn how to load balance VMware Horizon's complex UDP and TCP traffic using HAProxy's stateless stickiness. Improve remote desktop performance and reliability.
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Apache Cdorked Backdoor Detection
In this blog post, we provide an HAProxy configuration that can help you detect the Apache Cdorked Backdoor attack in your systems and protect them against it.
Brute Force Attacks in WordPress (HAProxy Prevention Guide)
A brute force attack in WordPress consists of massively sending requests to a URL with different parameters each time. Here's how to prevent it using HAProxy...
Client IP Persistence or Source IP Hash Load Balancing
In this blog post, we show two ways of performing source IP affinity with HAProxy: through the hash load balancing algorithm and using HAProxy Stick Tables.
Configure Syslog-ng to Log Readable HTTP URL From HAProxy
In this blog post, we describe how you configure HAProxy to log URLs exactly the way they were sent by the client by using syslog-ng's flexible configuration.
IIS 6.0 Appsession Cookie and PCI Compliance
When setup by the application server, the HAProxy load balancer can be used to update cookies on-the-fly. In this blog post, we explain how.
SSL Offloading Impact on Web Applications
Performing SSL at the Load-Balancer Layer is called SSL offloading because you offload this process from your application servers. Here's what you should know.
Mitigating the SSL Beast Attack Using the ALOHA Load Balancer
The beast attack on SSL isn’t new, but we have not yet published an article to explain how to mitigate it with ALOHA or HAProxy.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 Load Balancing With HAProxy
In this blog post, we show how to perform load balancing with HAProxy on Microsoft Exchange 2013 Services hosted on single and multiple host names.
HAProxy, High MySQL Request Rate and TCP Source Port Exhaustion
In this blog post, we show how to use HAProxy with MySQL at high request rates, and how to prevent the common TCP source port exhaustion error.
Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection
In this blog post, we will provide information on how to enable Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection with HAProxy.
Websockets Load Balancing With HAProxy
HTTP protocol is connection-less and only the client can request information from a server. In any case, a server can contact a client. Furthermore...
HAProxy Log Customization
Although HAProxy gives you detailed logging, sometimes you need a custom HAProxy log format. In this post, see how to define the template for logs.