09 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Load balancing in EC2 with Nginx and HAProxy

TweetWe wanted to setup a loadbalanced web cluster in AWS for expansion. My first inclination was to use ELB for this, but I soon learned that ELB doesn’t let you allocate a static IP, requiring you to refer to it only by DNS name. This would be OK except for the fact that our current [...]

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20 September 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Making sure SSLv2 is disabled in Apache (and Nginx)

Tweet Edit Jan 24, 2012: Deleted all the crap from this story and just left the recommended Apache and Nginx SSL cipher suites for maximum security without SSLv2 and without BEAST vulnerability (at least according to Qualys). Apache httpd SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1 SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM; SSLHonorCipherOrder on nginx ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1; ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!AESGCM; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; [...]

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