Outside of his technical support engineer role at Loadbalancer.org, Neil is a keen motorcyclist and ham radio operator. He brings together an interesting mixture of Linux systems administrator, technical support engineer, and software tester.
Protect both web servers and users, with this combination of layers and tools.
As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...
The best thing about HAProxy is its single process event driven architecture. It gives amazing performance in most real world scenarios and happily saturates gigabit+ networks... But the single process design is also the worst thing about HAProxy, because until now the way of scaling to 10G+ has been to