Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 15, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 4, 2022 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Every load balancer you’ll find on the market must deliver performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and do it better than its competitors. Each must solve complex programming challenges that address those needs—choices that will affect the direction...
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Senad Caus Senad Caus | Jan 26, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, WEBINARS
A common misconception is that load balancing is enough to achieve high availability. That is only true when you factor in one, very important feature: health checks! Health checks monitor your servers for issues. If a server loses connectivity or begins returning...
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...
Oliver Carrere Oliver Carrere | Nov 23, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, NEWS
Watch our webinar to learn more about this release. HAProxy 2.5 is now available! It adds improvements to a number of areas including better usability around setting variables, more descriptive error reporting and logging, and enhanced HTTP and WebSocket support. The...
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Nov 21, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, WEBINARS
HAProxy 2.5 is now available! Join this session to learn about the changes. This version of HAProxy improves a number of features, including: full support for managing servers dynamically using the Runtime API SSL/TLS enhancements, including support for OpenSSL 3.0...
