Announcing HAProxy 1.6
13th of October 2015, Willy Terrau announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development. A total of 1156 commits from 59 people were committed.
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Baptiste Assmann
Baptiste has focused on high-performance web architectures for more than a decade now, mainly on the front piece and through the angle of the Load-Balancer/Reverse proxies. Baptiste loves studying new use cases and finds solutions to make the magic happen with his software load-balancer of choice: HAProxy.
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HAProxy’s Load Balancing Algorithm for Static Content Delivery With Varnish
In this blog post, we will show how to use HAProxy's hash based load balancing algorithm for static content delivery with Varnish.
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Load Balancing
Remote Desktop Services is a technology from Microsoft that allows users to remotely access a session-based desktop, virtual machine-based desktop, or...
A HTTP Monitor Which Matches Multiple Conditions in HAProxy
Health checking is one of the most important features of a load balancer. Here we show how to match multiple conditions for HTTP health checking in HAProxy.
HAProxy and SSLv3 Poodle Vulnerability
This blog post explains how to use HAProxy to simply prevent using SSLv3 or to prevent those users to reach your applications and print them a message.
Mitigating the Shellshock Vulnerability With HAProxy
Today’s article will explain how to use HAProxy to protect your application from Bash shellshock vulnerability if you’re in a case where you have to be protected.
PHP-fpm/FastCGI Probe Example (Binary Health Check With HAProxy 1.5)
In this blog post, we demonstrate how to enable binary health checks with HAProxy 1.5 by using a PHP-fpm/FastCGI probe example.
What is the HTTP 408 Request Timeout Error? (+ How to Fix it)
The HTTP 408 status code is an error returned by the server when it doesn't receive a timely request from the client.
How to Write Apache ProxyPass* Rules in HAProxy?
Some customers ask us to migrate the Apache mod_proxy configuration into HAProxy. This article explains how to translate ProxyPass-related rules.
Linux Asymmetric Routing Using Multiple Default Gateways
In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to perform asymmetric routing and multiple default gateways on Linux with HAProxy.
How to Protect Application Cookies While Offloading SSL
You don’t want your clients to send their cookies (understand their identity) clearly through the Internet. This is today’s article's purpose.
Emulating Active/Passive Application Clustering With HAProxy
In this blog post, we will show the different ways in which you can use the HAProxy load balancer to emulate an active/passive clustering mode.