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Throttling abusive clients with HAProxy (tracking the number of open connections, HTTP request rate, bytes in/out rate, etc.)

08SepSeptember 8, 2022

Smart throttling and blocking of abusive clients using HAProxy

HAProxy's stick tables are not a new feature. In fact, they were introduced way back in 2010, and ever since they were handy for tracking the number of open connections, HTTP request rate, bytes in/out rate, etc. In most cases, we use stick tables for throttling abusive HTTP clients, but...

By Saša TekovićSysbee BlogHaProxy, http, Load balancer0 Comments

HAProxy – sysadmin’s swiss army knife

HAProxy is a free, open-source, high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer. HAProxy has been around since 2001, it's written in C programming language, and it uses an insignificant amount of memory and CPU resources, even with very advanced manipulations on HTTP traffic. It's also very secure, having only fifteen security issues during the...

By Saša TekovićSysbee Blogadvice, HaProxy, infrastructure, Load balancer0 Comments

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Smart throttling and blocking of abusive clients using HAProxy

HAProxy – sysadmin’s swiss army knife