by 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...
by wtarreau | May 3, 2017 | DEVOPS, NEWS, TECH
Summary HAProxy Technologies’ R&D has released a patchset to enable seamless reloads of HAProxy without dropping packets in the process. The patchset has already been merged into the HAProxy 1.8 development branch and will soon be backported to HAProxy...
by Baptiste Assmann | Feb 10, 2016 | SECURITY, TECH
One of the biggest security challenges that companies face in today’s modern climate is the POST attack. Unlike a more traditional “Denial-of-Service” attack, POST attacks target a servers logical resources – making them particularly powerful...
by Nenad Merdanovic | Jul 15, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
ECC and RSA certificates and HTTPS To keep this practical, we will not go into theory of ECC or RSA certificates. Let’s just mention that ECC certificates can provide as much security as RSA with much lower key size, meaning much lower computation requirements...
by Baptiste Assmann | Jan 26, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Synopsis Let’s take a web application platform where many HTTP Host header points to. Of course, this platform hosts many backends and HAProxy is used to perform content switching based on the Host header to route HTTP traffic to each backend. HAProxy map...