How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing with SSL Termination
Use SSL termination to reduce your SSL certificate and software management overhead on load-balanced servers. This tutorial uses an Nginx load-balancer and LAMP backends.
How To Create a High Availability Setup with Corosync, Pacemaker, and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 14.04
This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use Corosync and Pacemaker with a Reserved IP to create a high availability (HA) server infrastructure on the cloud provider. Corosync is an open source program that provides cluster membership and messaging capabilities, often referred…
How To Use Apache as a Reverse Proxy with mod_proxy on CentOS 7
In this tutorial, you will set up Apache as a reverse proxy using the `mod_proxy` extension to redirect incoming connections to underlying application server(s) running on the same network. There are instructions on setting up a simple web app using the Flask framework to show how Apache interacts with the real application hidden behind it, but you can also follow this tutorial using your existing application server, if you have one.
How To Create a High-Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu
Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.
How To Use Apache as a Reverse Proxy with mod_proxy on Debian 8
In this tutorial, you will set up Apache as a reverse proxy using the `mod_proxy` extension to redirect incoming connections to underlying application server(s) running on the same network. There are instructions on setting up a simple web app using the Flask framework to show how Apache interacts with the real application hidden behind it, but you can also follow this tutorial using your existing application server, if you have one.
How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04
Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.
How To Use Apache as a Reverse Proxy with mod_proxy on Ubuntu 16.04
In this tutorial, you will set up Apache as a reverse proxy using the `mod_proxy` extension to redirect incoming connections to underlying application server(s) running on the same network. There are instructions on setting up a simple web app using the Flask framework to show how Apache interacts with the real application hidden behind it, but you can also follow this tutorial using your existing application server, if you have one.
How To Deploy a Node.js and MongoDB Application with Rancher on Ubuntu 16.04
Rancher is an open source, self-hosted, and complete platform to run and easily manage containers in production. Being a Docker image itself, a Rancher server will work on any Linux host where Docker is available. Some of the key features that…
How To Use Apache as a Reverse-Proxy with mod_proxy on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial, you’ll set up Apache as a basic reverse proxy using the mod_proxy extension to redirect incoming connections to one or several backend servers running on the same network. This tutorial uses a backend written with the Flask web framework, but you can use any backend server you prefer.
3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime
As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.
