Really just as simple as ‘just don’t break the law’.

While there is a case to be made whether the death penalty is justified, the law was written and the offender should be aware of what happens if they’re caught. Since they broke the law and got caught, they don’t have much of a defence against the punishment. Applies to any country, not just Singapore.

Would HAProxy work better as a load balancer? For work we switched due to some issues with NGINX; so far, the service has been much more consistent with pretty much no downtime, even when restarting server hosts.