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How to Fix Apache logging for HAProxy

A big thank-you goes out to whoever launched the DoS attack against this website! My pile of HAProxy managed Raspberries worked great! I noticed this in my Munin graph. (Yes, I will show how to configure Munin in an upcoming post!) People get upset when they are attacked. I find that they make great learning […]

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How to Install HAProxy on a Raspberry

HAProxy is available on the Raspbian platform! HAProxy is a high availability, load balancing, and proxying server application. It sits between the Internet and your webservers. HAProxy sends the traffic to each of your servers, round-robin style. Since I’m serving this website on a couple of Raspberries, I thought HAProxy would be a welcome solution […]

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How to Move Raspbian swapfile to USB

Running your raspberry pi from SDcard works, but has its foibles. For one, consistent reading and writing to and from an SDcard is a sure recipe for failure. Sure, the little memory cards are fast and cheap, but they don’t take well to this kind of abuse. Especially the unrelenting i/o of a swapfile. Better […]

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