Just wanted to follow up on some of the questions about those features that really distinguish the ProxyPass from competitive products. It really has a number of first-in-class (i.e. proxies, load-balancing) and best-in-class (i.e. optimized architecture) features that make it an excellent solution:
--Detection and denial of open, abusable proxies. AOL and other
legitimate proxies and gateways are -not- denied because of this.
--Detection and denial of single-source IP and non-proxy, distributed IP (e.g. drones or collaborative cracker rings) attacks.
--Detection and denial of password sharing violations.
--Optimized C module implementation providing for the fastest possible solution. The performance is much better than any sort of high-level scripted solution. The ProxyPass drops crack connections much earlier in the Apache response cycle than a cgi, php, or other response-handler-level script. This is one of the features that has yielded performance improvements between 10x and 50x for customers that have switched to the
ProxyPass from competitive products. When a customer's load average drops that significantly under heavy crack attempts, that really translates into a much lower total cost of ownership for webmasters. Its much more than a 'tad' difference.
(read the testimonial here:
http://www.proxypass.com/modules.php...rder=0&thold=0)
--Performance isolation between the customer Apache server and the centralized ProxyPass machines. If the network between them is slow or the ProxyPass servers unreachable for some other reason, the customer Apache server performance will -not- be impacted.
--Real time administration tool on the customers Apache server. Why log in to a remote machine to administer your account when it simply adds another potential point of failure to the overall solution? With the ProxyPass, webmasters have total control over blocks and configuration settings directly on their own server.
--Ability to share information across load-balanced clusters of apache servers. This is a huge benefit to enterprise level, load-balanced setups and eliminates partial-block problems.
Steve, also not sure where you're coming with the comment (even tho someone from there (proxypass) seems to want to slam pennywize at every opportunity for his own gain -- but i'm not going to get into that)....anyways, best of luck w/ your release!
If anyone has Qs about the ProxyPass or wants to give it a shot please hit me up on ICQ: 153529369
...and thanks for your comments Sleepy.
Best regards,
Laszlo
ICQ:153529369