As you can see from our network configuration, HAProxy is a much beloved part of our infrastructure. Willy Tarreau, the author, has been extremely responsive and helpful to us in the past.
So when we reached a surprising dead-end in our quest to find a reverse proxy that could block HTTP clients using too much bandwidth, or too many connections, we were happy to approach Willy with the idea of sponsoring this feature in HAProxy.
I’m pleased to announce that this new HAProxy feature we sponsored is now available to everyone as of August 26th! …