Andrei started being interested in network technologies in the early 2000s during the dial-up era, when the necessity of being connected with the neighbourhood's internet network and to manage it became a hobby. When he's not in the office, he enjoys outdoor activities like trekking, cycling or playing airsoft.
Recently I was asked to develop a method to rate limit connections passing through our load balancer to just one! Why? One of our customers had a critical piece of proprietary software in their architecture that was only licensed for one connection at a time. But annoyingly the licensed software
Perplexed by proxy?! Ruffled by reverse proxy?! We’ve all been there. Honestly, sometimes I think the language we use makes things sound way more complicated than they actually are.
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Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable.
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored.
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out.
The web-based login to your application is a juicy target for hackers. And once they get past the login, they can cause you some serious pain.
Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy.
SNI is an extension to the TLS protocol which enables the client to broadcast its hostname when it tries to connect to your server. This allows you to use multiple SSL certificates on a single IP.