Web Servers

How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Nginx Load Balancing

This article covers how to set up a simple load balancer on a cloud servers with nginx. The tutorial covers setting up a round robin loadbalancer that can then direct site visitors to one of a set of IPs

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How To Fix Common LetsEncrypt Errors — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Fix Common LetsEncrypt Errors

There are many common errors you may encounter when configuring your domain name or HTTPS support. This tutorial will review some common errors you may encounter when dealing with DNS, HTTPS, or Let’s Encrypt specifically.

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Introduction to Kafka — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

Introduction to Kafka

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up Apache Kafka, create and delete topics, and send and receive events using the provided scripts. You’ll also learn about similar projects with the same purpose, and how Kafka compares.

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An Introduction to Proxies — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Proxies

A proxy, also called a proxy server, is a server software that sits as an intermediary between a client and server on the internet. Proxies provides benefits in the form of increased performance, privacy, security, and more. As an additional pass-through layer, a proxy acts as a gatekeeper of the internet between clients and servers.

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