Preserve Stick Table Data When Reloading HAProxy
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...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Achieving Multi-Datacenter High Availability with HAProxy ALOHA and GSLB
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...
April/2022 – CVE-2022-22965: Spring4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation
Recently, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Java Spring Core library. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. You can find more information on that vulnerability in the announcement on the Spring...
Use Your Load Balancer to Monitor Application Health
HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many...
Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.5
The focus of the 2.5 version was on expanding support for HAProxy configuration keywords, and that's where most of the effort during this release cycle was spent. We will continue doing that during the next couple of versions to gain complete feature parity with both...
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[On-Demand Webinar] What’s New in the HAProxy Data Plane API 2.5
The HAProxy Data Plane API enables you to configure your HAProxy load balancers programmatically. This latest release, version 2.5, expands coverage of existing HAProxy configuration directives, fixes bugs, and optimizes performance. During this on-demand webinar, you...
How Load Balancing Improves the Performance of Your Applications
Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website's performance. I'll explain why. With Firefox's Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer's website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the site. In this case, I...
Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers And Never Reload HAProxy
Every load balancer you'll find on the market must deliver performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and do it better than its competitors. Each must solve complex programming challenges that address those needs—choices that will affect the direction of the...
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[On-Demand Webinar] HAProxy Skills Lab: Health Checking Servers
A common misconception is that load balancing is enough to achieve high availability. That is only true when you factor in one, very important feature: health checks! Health checks monitor your servers for issues. If a server loses connectivity or begins returning...
Achieving Website High Availability
When someone says a website is available, they mean that they can access that website. The application they're trying to reach is up and working properly. High availability means that the website is up most of the time throughout the year. Companies can even put a...
What Is Load Balancing
Load balancing means splitting up network traffic so that you can distribute it evenly across a group of backend servers. For example, if you run two web servers, both hosting a copy of the same website, then you can balance the traffic across them, sending half to...
Events
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[Conference] KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities in Valencia, Spain from 16 – 20 May 2022. If you're attending KubeCon in-person, visit us in Pavilion 1, booth S59. If...
