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How can I load balance UDP with open source HAProxy?
UDP is a connectionless protocol, meaning it doesn't establish a formal connection or 'handshake' before sending data...
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Find step-by-step technical guides and tutorials for load balancer configuration. Learn how to master Layer 4, 7 and GSLB, automate deployments with our API/CLI, and configure advanced features like SSL termination, health checks, and HA clustering.
Neil Hosking
Load balancing Exchange 2019
Microsoft Exchange 2019 upholds the legacy of Exchange 2016, 2013 (and numerous earlier versions) by continuing to be the ubiquitous mail server and calendaring service of choice for small, medium and enterprise-level organizations the world over...
Application Management
How-tos
Microsoft
Andrei Grigoras
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
How-tos
HAProxy
Open source
Dave Saunders
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
Open source
How-tos
Integrations
Aaron West
How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..
WAF
How-tos
Security
Peter Statham
Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy
We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...
HAProxy
Open source
How-tos
Neil Stone
Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF
We’re often asked how to configure our load balancer to protect both web servers and users...
WAF
Security
How-tos
Imannuel Graham
Load balancing PaperCut Version 20
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities...
Print
How-tos
Application Management
Andrew Smalley
How to YAML your load balancer deployment
With this, we now have the YAML interface and a method to post the contents!..
How-tos
Automation
Andrei Grigoras
How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out...
Open source
How-tos
Aaron West
AWS reservations, savings plans, and spot instances explained
I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans"...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Comparisons
Andrew Howe
Security through Geography: blocking traffic by country, continent, or IP address using ModSecurity
Imagine you’re running a business and you often see malicious-looking web traffic from the other side of the globe hitting your website...
How-tos
WAF
Security
Neil Stone
Smart, secure encryption with SNI
In the early days of the Internet, there was very little encrypted traffic. People simply trusted that nobody was out to get them. But later on, security and encryption became an important part of online life...
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