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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17 September 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Using SSH tunnel & Squid to create a private encrypted proxy for true private browsing (mostly)

TweetI once worked at this place where I got a stern talking-to for viewing non-work-related pages. It was around Christmas and I was doing my shopping online (since I left the house at 7 AM and got home at 8 PM). It’s not like I was farting around all the time. Anyway, the idea that [...]

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