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## haproxy_rate_limiting.md

      
        
          
            
              
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              July 14, 2022 08:05
                — forked from procrastinatio/haproxy_rate_limiting.md
            
              
                Rate limiting with HAproxy
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Introduction

So HAProxy is primalery a load balancer an proxy for TCP and HTTP. But it may act as a traffic
regulator. It may also be used as a protection against DDoS and service abuse, by maintening a wide variety
of statistics (IP, URL, cookie) and when abuse is happening, action as denying, redirecting to other backend
may undertaken ([haproxy ddos config], [haproxy ddos])