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HTTP/2 SSL Offloading with Hitch and Varnish 10

HTTP/2 SSL Offloading with Hitch and Varnish

Updated August 2026: Hitch + Varnish HTTP/2 offloading is still a solid pattern. On current Debian/Ubuntu, prefer current Hitch/Varnish packages, keep TLS 1.2+ only, and re-check varnishd CLI flags — some older examples used options...

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File changed as we read it GlusterFS issue

File changed as we read it GlusterFS issue Recently i had trouble running Backups of my Gitlab instance onto GlusterFS mounted volumes. The tar cronjob always exited with error message: File changed as we read...

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Running multiple instances of varnish using systemd

Updated August 2026: Multiple Varnish instances under systemd still works the same way: separate config, cache, and ports per instance, plus dedicated varnishncsa/varnishlog units. On newer distros, put overrides in /etc/systemd/system/*.d/ instead of editing the...

HTTP/2 SSL Offloading with Haproxy and Nginx 2

HTTP/2 SSL Offloading with Haproxy and Nginx

Updated August 2026: HAProxy + Nginx HTTP/2 offloading remains relevant. Prefer HAProxy 2.x+ with explicit alpn h2,http/1.1, modern cipher suites, and HTTP/2 on the backend only if your stack actually speaks h2c. Re-validate against your...