Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 25, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, RANDOM TIPS, TECH
With HAProxy situated in front of their servers, many people leverage it as a frontline component for enabling extra security and observability for their networks. HAProxy provides a way to monitor the number of TCP connections, the rate of HTTP requests, the number...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Sep 28, 2020 | BASICS, RANDOM TIPS
Set up custom error pages in HAProxy to ensure consistent, branded messaging that supports any backend web stack. The memory is probably still fresh: You’re shopping online at your favorite website, looking for something specific, you’ve got it narrowed...
HAProxy Technologies HAProxy Technologies | May 15, 2017 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
Back in May, HAProxy Senior Systems Engineer Chad Lavoie presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston. Chad presented on using maps in HAProxy to dynamically route requests while securing your site with SSL combined with the use of the Update Module (included in HAProxy...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | May 26, 2014 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
Lately, there was some discussions on HAProxy’s mailing list about 408 errors printed in Chrome browsers. Origin of 408 errors 408 is the status code used by web servers or proxies when the client has not sent a whole HTTP request during a certain period of...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Apr 2, 2013 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
These tips are provided by Exosec. Exosec provides a very good monitoring product called POM, based on Nagios with very strong value added such as very simple administration, application monitoring, etc… For some of their project, they use either HAProxy or the...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 26, 2012 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
Synopsis Compression is a Technic to reduce object size to reduce delivery delay for objects over HTTP protocol. Until now, HAProxy did not include such feature. But the guys at HAProxy Technologies worked hard on it (mainly David Du Colombier and @wlallemand)....