Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Aug 26, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy. High availability and a reverse proxy–it’s in the name, but what does it all mean? Before understanding how the two concepts work together in the load balancing space, we need to unpack the basics of high availability and how a reverse proxy functions. In...
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Apr 4, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, WEBINARS
HAProxy ALOHA is a load balancer that’s ideal for companies in search of high performance and ease of use. It comes as either a hardware appliance or a virtual appliance and provides load balancing of TCP, UDP and HTTP traffic, DDoS protection, and active-active...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Dec 11, 2020 | NEWS, TECH
With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital...
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Jan 15, 2019 | TECH, WEBINARS
Your routing logic in HAProxy is simple in the beginning. Then it grows in complexity, perhaps requiring you to choose a different backend based upon the requested URL path, hostname or region. Not long after, you have dozens of similar rules—maybe even hundreds! When...
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...