Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 22, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
If you host dozens of web services that reside at various subdomains, TCP ports, and paths, then migrating them to live under a single address could simplify how clients access them and make your job of managing access easier. It would mean moving from a hodgepodge of...
HAProxy Technologies HAProxy Technologies | Dec 13, 2021 | NEWS, SECURITY, TECH
This post will be updated over the next several days. Recently, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Apache Log4J library. This vulnerability, which is tracked in CVE-2021-44228, dubbed Log4Shell, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on...
Jim O'Connell Jim O'Connell | Feb 2, 2021 | BASICS, TECH
Your HAProxy load balancer may only ever need to relay traffic for a single domain name, but HAProxy can handle two, ten, or even ten million routing rules without breaking a sweat. This article shows several ways of handling multi-domain configurations, including an...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 14, 2020 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, SECURITY
HAProxy gives you an arsenal of sophisticated countermeasures including deny, tarpit, silent drop, reject, and shadowban to stop malicious users. There are two phases to stopping malicious users from abusing your website and online applications. Step one is detection,...
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Nov 6, 2018 | TECH, WEBINARS
As requests stream into your HAProxy Enterprise load balancer, adding rules to route them to the right place, redirect them to other pages, or outright deny them is what puts you in control of your traffic. Access Control Lists (ACLs) give you this power and they are...