Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 17, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing means splitting up network traffic so that you can distribute it evenly across a group of backend servers. For example, if you run two web servers, both hosting a copy of the same website, then you can balance the traffic across them, sending half to...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 14, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy provides active, passive, and agent health checks. HAProxy makes your web applications highly available by spreading requests across a pool of backend servers. If one or even several servers fail, clients can still use your app as long as there are...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 7, 2021 | NEWS, SECURITY, TECH
If you are using HAProxy 2.0 or newer, it is important that you update to the latest version. A vulnerability was found that makes it possible for an attacker to bypass the check for a duplicate HTTP Content-Length header, permitting a request smuggling attack or a...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 24, 2021 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
The HAProxy load balancer provides a set of APIs for configuring it programmatically. Although many people enjoy the simplicity of configuring their HAProxy load balancer by directly editing its configuration file, /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg, others want a way to...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 9, 2021 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you’ll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for...
