Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 30, 2019 | BASICS, SECURITY, TECH
Use rate limiting in HAProxy to stop clients from making too many requests and promote fair usage of your services. Rate limiting in HAProxy stops a client from making too many requests during a window of time. You might have a policy that stipulates how many requests...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 15, 2019 | BASICS, SECURITY, SSL
The HAProxy load balancer provides high-performance SSL termination, allowing you to encrypt and decrypt traffic. You can quickly and easily enable SSL/TLS encryption for your applications by using HAProxy SSL termination. HAProxy is compiled with OpenSSL, which...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 14, 2019 | SECURITY, TECH
An HAProxy load balancer allows you to mask IP addresses in order to protect the privacy of your users. Read on to learn more. How do load balancers fit into the larger debate over data privacy and security? It helps to step back and consider how HAProxy adds a layer...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 28, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
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...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 9, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
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...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Mar 24, 2017 | SECURITY
The Proxy protocol is a widely used invention of our CTO at HAProxy Technologies, Willy Tarreau, to solve the problem of TCP connection parameters being lost when relaying TCP connections through proxies. Its primary purpose is to chain proxies and reverse-proxies...
