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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...
How to Enable Health Checks in HAProxy
HAProxy provides active, passive, and agent health checks. HAProxy makes your web applications highly available by spreading requests across a pool of backend servers. If one or even several servers fail, clients can still use your app as long as there are...
Testing Your HAProxy Configuration
Learn how to test your HAProxy Configuration. Properly testing your HAProxy configuration file is a simple, yet crucial part of administering your load balancer. Remembering to run one simple command after making a change to your configuration file can save you from...
Install HAProxy on Ubuntu
Learn how to Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 20.04 is a great choice for installing your HAProxy software load balancer. It's a free Linux operating system that's fast, secure, and best of all, it's easy to use. One of the features that makes Ubuntu so...
How to Run HAProxy with Docker
Can you run HAProxy as a Docker container? Yes! Did you even need to ask? Docker is ubiquitous these days and you'll find that many applications have been Docker-ized; the HAProxy load balancer is no exception. Pardon the cliché, but HAProxy was born for this....
HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers
Learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file. If you're new to using the HAProxy load balancer, you've come to the right place. In this blog post, you'll learn how to configure HAProxy for basic load balancing. I am assuming...
Visualize HAProxy Metrics with InfluxDB
HAProxy generates over a hundred metrics to give you a nearly real-time view of the state of your load balancers and the services they proxy, but to get the most from this data, you need a way to visualize it. InfluxData’s InfluxDB suite of applications takes...
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[On-Demand Webinar] HAProxy Skills Lab: Diagnosing Simple Problems
If you prefer joining the same webinar in French, register here. Troubleshooting network issues can seem like an arcane art. Operations teams build up knowledge through trial-and-error, online forums, and wisdom handed down from one generation to another. However, the...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy
Want to continue learning? Register for our live webinar: HAProxy Skills Lab: Diagnosing Simple Problems. If you prefer watching this webinar in French click here. Are you new to using the HAProxy? Are you new to load balancing in general? In this webinar, you will...
How to Map Domain Names to Backend Server Pools with HAProxy
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...
