Subj : Re: Tor hidderviervices / TLS for binkp
To   : tallship
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Tue Oct 15 2019 06:10 pm

 t> On 13 Oct 2019, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 t>  
 pF>>   Re: Tor hidden services / TLS for binkp
 pF>>   By: Oli to Oli on Sun Oct 13 2019 12:48 pm
 pF>> 
 pF>> Ol> configure. The most powerful is haproxy, but it has a million configu
 t> r
 pF>> Ol> parameters you'll never use and a weird config syntax. Nginx might be

 pF>> Ol> interesting, if you're already using it (I haven't tried the tcp prox
 t> y
 pF>> Ol> nginx). 
 pF>> 
 pF>> Nginx is fast becoming my favorite; I grew up on Apache but just set up a

 pF>> reverse proxy with Nginx - the synax and the config file layout is nice,
 pF>> and it didn't take very long to set up the reverse proxy.
 pF>> 

 t> Isn't it though? I've stayed with Apache on Slackware, coz I know it
 t> backwards and forwards, but I do love Nginx and run it on other
 t> Unices.

 t> Stunnel is really straight-forward too, and perhaps the easiest to
 t> implement
 t> TLS for things like Gopher over standard ports and other things that
 t> don't
 t> actually have support for TLS.

 t> haproxy is the old standby, and arguably the most powerful, but it's a
 t> royal
 t> biotch to config. 

Weeeeell.  I agree to disagree.  There are * a lot * of good howto's and
documentation on Haproxy. I've used it myself for years with six Apache web
servers as backend except for a few weeks here and there when I tried to use
Nginx as a reverse proxy and the same amount of web servers as backend. Nginx
is, no doubt, very powerful but there are situations and configurations where
it just doesn't work properly (hello Wordpress...) at all times.  I always end
up going back and maintaining my Haproxy / Apache combo and it's been nothing
but rock solid for years. I can't say it's that much slower either to be
honest. 



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