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Bot Protection with HAProxy
HAProxy is a high-performance load balancer that provides advanced defense capabilities for detecting and protecting against malicious bot traffic to your website. Combining its unique ACL, map, and stick table systems with its powerful configuration language allows...
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[Live Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
December 20th, 2018 Starting time (US): 12pm EST, 11am CST, 10am MST, 9am PST Starting time (EU): 5pm GTM, 6pm CET, 7pm EET HTTP requests are stateless by design. So how do you "remember" clients so that you can persist them to a server? Or how do you recognize when a...
Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
HAProxy’s high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world’s top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application with requests or connections, and in this post we will show you how...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and Blocking Malicious Traffic
As requests stream into your HAProxy Enterprise load balancer, adding rules to route them to the right place, redirect them to other pages, or outright deny them is what puts you in control of your traffic. Access Control Lists (ACLs) give you this power and they are...
The Four Essential Sections of an HAProxy Configuration
An HAProxy configuration file guides the behavior of your HAProxy load balancer. In this post, we demonstrate its four most essential sections. There are four essential sections to an HAProxy configuration file. They are global, defaults, frontend, and backend. These...
Introduction to HAProxy Maps
An HAProxy map file stores key-value pairs and is the starting point for some inventive behavior including dynamic rate limiting and blue-green deployments. Dictionaries. Maps. Hashes. Associative arrays. Can you imagine life without these wonderful key-value data...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 2
Placing HAProxy at the edge of your AWS infrastructure is possible without involving Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). In this article, we’ll discuss how. This blog post is part of a series. See Part 1 here. There is such a thing as too many layers. There’s a restaurant...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]
An API gateway handles load balancing, security, rate limiting, monitoring, and other cross-cutting concerns for API services. Read on to learn how HAProxy Enterprise excels as an API gateway. “Danger! Avalanche Area” is a sign you’ll see when you drive through some...
Introduction to HAProxy Stick Tables
HTTP requests are stateless by design. However, this raises some questions regarding how to track user activities, including malicious ones, across requests so that you can collect metrics, block users, and make other decisions based on state. The only way to track...
Introduction to HAProxy ACLs
An HAProxy ACL lets you define custom rules for blocking malicious requests, choosing backends, redirecting to HTTPS and using cached objects. See The Webinar: Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and...
Hitless Reloads with HAProxy – HOWTO
Our R&D department published a well-received blog post titled “Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!”. In it, we explained why some established connections could be dropped during reloads under high utilization, and how the problem has been solved in...
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[Conference] KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018
December 11 - 13, 2018, Seattle, WA