Neil Stone

Outside of his technical support engineer role at Loadbalancer.org, Neil is a keen motorcyclist and amateur radio operator. He brings together an interesting mixture of Linux systems administrator, technical support engineer, and software testing.

How-tos

How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution

Imagine explaining the issue to a friend. Be specific. Instead of "The system isn't working," tell us what you're trying to do and what happens instead...

Neil Stone

3 mins

HAProxy

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...

Neil Stone

4 mins

Security

The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC

TLS encryption (formerly known as SSL encryption) is used to improve the safety of data exchanged over a network. But where should it sit in your network architecture?..

Neil Stone

6 mins

How-tos

How to deploy a Load balancer appliance on Proxmox

Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...

Neil Stone

6 mins

How-tos

I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?

All Secure Web Gateways require client IP transparency in order to implement any proper kind of security and authentication. Which can be a real pain if you have a load balancer in the middle...

Neil Stone

4 mins

WAF

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...

Neil Stone

3 mins

How-tos

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...

Neil Stone

4 mins

Open source

Does the new multi-threaded support in HAProxy finally solve the 10G problem?

It’s no big secret that a single processor can only handle so much processing in a given time. So what happens when you reach the limits of what a single processor can handle? Simple, you add more processors...

Neil Stone

7 mins

Latest posts

How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution

How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid

The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC

How to deploy a Load balancer appliance on Proxmox

I wonder…Can HAProxy Proxy Protocol fix my Secure Web Gateway routing problem?

Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF

Smart, secure encryption with SNI

Does the new multi-threaded support in HAProxy finally solve the 10G problem?

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