2 Ways to Enable Sticky Sessions in HAProxy (Guide)
In this blog post, you will learn how HAProxy supports sticky sessions. You can choose to implement them either with a cookie or with the user’s IP address.
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How Load Balancing Improves the Performance of Your Applications
In this blog post, you'll learn how load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance.
What is Load Balancing & How it Works (Complete Breakdown)
Load balancing is the distribution of network traffic between backend servers to ensure high availability and performance. Here's everything you should know.
How to Enable Health Checks in HAProxy (Guide)
HAProxy provides three types of health checks: active health checks, passive health checks and agent health checks. In this blog, we will learn about each one.
Testing Your HAProxy Configuration (Easy to Follow Guide)
Learn how to test your HAProxy Configuration. Properly testing your HAProxy configuration file is a simple yet crucial part of administering your load balancer.
The HAProxy APIs (What You Should Know)
In this blog post, you will learn more about HAProxy APIs and how you can manage your HAProxy configuration without editing its configuration file by hand.
How to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu (In a Few Simple Steps)
In this post, you will learn how to install the open-source edition of HAProxy on Ubuntu, one of the most popular and powerful operating systems around.
HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers
In this blog post, you will learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file.
How to Map Domain Names to Backend Server Pools With HAProxy
In this blog post, we will show several ways of handling multi-domain configurations, including an introduction to using HAProxy maps.
HAProxy Log Sampling & Cost-Saving Benefits | 2 Examples
Log Sampling is a powerful feature introduced in HAProxy 2.0 that lets you create a representative view of your data allowing you to minimize your costs.
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Proxy Mode (Understanding the Difference)
With HAProxy you can switch between proxying traffic at layer 4 (TCP) or layer 7 (HTTP). This blog post describes the features available to you in each mode.
Serve Dynamic Custom Error Pages With HAProxy
This blog post covers how to set up custom error pages in HAProxy in order to ensure consistent, branded messaging that supports any backend web stack.