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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...
Tom Inglis-Starck
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...
Open source
HAProxy
How-tos
Joshua Turnbull
ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB
Envoy was never optimized for sustained, high-throughput, state-aware storage traffic across multiple protocols simultaneously...
Storage
GSLB
Open source
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Hardening HashiCorp Vault with load balancing for always-on security
In a production environment, Vault downtime isn't just a security risk — it’s a total operational hard-stop...
Security
High Availability
Open source
Nick Hawkins-Booth
How to load balance a MariaDB Galera Cluster for performance and HA using LVS & Ldirectord
While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution...
Storage
Layer 4
Direct Server Return
Damian Pacuszka
A simple Citrix SSO replacement; with Okta, Apache and OpenID Connect
This setup allows you to leverage the power of a centralized identity management system to secure your web apps, while maintaining the flexibility and performance you expect...
Security
Open source
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
Malcolm Turnbull
The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy
When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...
Storage
HAProxy
Open source
Neil Stone
How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...
HAProxy
Security
Open source
Damian Pacuszka
See who's really visiting your website: Achieving IP transparency with the Proxy Protocol
There are a few different ways to achieve IP transparency, but one of the most effective is with the help of the great Proxy Protocol...
Open source
HAProxy
Layer 7
Damian Pacuszka
What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?
Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..
How-tos
Open source
Security
Andrew Howe
Why you shouldn't lose sleep over the commercial end-of-life of ModSecurity
The ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) engine is set to go end-of-life (EOL) on 1 July 2024...
WAF
Open source
Security
Peter Statham
Why is public cloud potentially a bad idea from a programmer's perspective?
Cloud may be a developers best friend, but it can also be a programmer's worst enemy...
Open source
AWS / Azure / GCP
Lea Friend
What can we learn from the recent F5 security vulnerability?
F5 recently announced a critical security vulnerability, allowing an attacker to bypass its iControl REST authentication, and execute commands such as creating or deleting files and disabling services...
Security
Open source