Mark works as the development manager at Loadbalancer.org. Away from work, Mark plays a lot of Frisbee and enjoys mountain biking. Other hobbies include compiling drivers into the Linux Kernel.
HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!
There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested
Editor note: This blog has been updated many times since its original publication. Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible? Many engineers including myself have plenty of horror stories such as waiting hours for licence
We’ve been doing some internal testing with Collectd but couldn’t find the upstart script. So we made our own.
This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!
A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!
The vast majority of layer 4 load balancers use LVS in two-arm NAT mode.