High Availability
Slay the downtime dragon and be an HA hero
High Availability
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
Microsoft
Are the Microsoft apps you depend on dependable enough?! Load balancing for seamless service delivery
Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable...
Print
Hold on, printers need load balancing too?
It really boils down to what you are printing, the volume of print jobs, and often the application it comes from...
Comparisons
Multi-application verus dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..
High Availability
How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization
There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...
GSLB
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users...
Performance
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
High Availability
What is a load balancer? A comprehensive guide to load balancing
Hidden in data centers around the world, there are millions of load balancers that keep businesses and their applications fully functional 24/7 – making sure users enjoy a seamless and uninterrupted high-quality experience at every single click...
High Availability
Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies
Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers...
Print
Why zero downtime for print management is critical
A properly load balanced print management solution can ensure zero downtime, resilience, a simplified infrastructure, easy maintenance and optimal performance...
Storage
How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data
There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data ...
Comparisons
What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms?
The primary function of a load balancer is to keep your application running with no downtime. It is an invaluable tool for systems architects, and it has the benefit of being pretty simple to understand...
Print
Printing without pain: How to scale print environments and avoid downtime
Print environments often bring together multiple technologies and applications, which can present challenges. There’s the issue of planned downtime: end-users may need to make manual changes to their network when print services fail, taking servers out of production for maintenance or updates.....
High Availability
Can you load balance multiple applications at the same time? The pros and cons
Performance is not generally an issue when load balancing multiple applications - but maintenance is...
Healthcare
The need for load balancing in medical imaging
Load balancing provides a fast, highly available and scalable architecture for the transfer, storage and retrieval of medical images...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...
Open source
Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC (aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAProxy)
Load balancing NFS is a real pain; especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos...
GSLB
I've finally found a decent reason to use Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)!
Yes, it's the end of an era... after many years arguing that GSLB has no place on a proper load balancer, I've finally found a solid reason to add one to our product. Yes, you read that right! I've officially surrendered and given you a new GSLB to play with...!..
High Availability
Load balancing Nutanix: Choosing an enterprise load balancer
Nutanix offers a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that integrates virtualization, computing, networking, storage, and security resources into a single system...
GSLB
GSLB — Why Global Server Load Balancers don’t always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Part 2
In part one we were introduced to Polaris-GSLB which is a cool little open source GSLB solution. In part two of this Blog I’m going to show you how to build Polaris-GSLB on CentOS 7...
GSLB
GSLB – Why Global Server Load Balancers don't always suck? (Polaris-GSLB)
Here at Loadbalancer.org we’re not known for being huge fans of GSLB solutions as some of our customers may already know...
High Availability
Disaster recovery is more important than HTTPS SNI support...
SNI is an extension to the TLS protocol which enables the client to broadcast its hostname when it tries to connect to your server. This allows you to use multiple SSL certificates on a single IP...
High Availability
Exchange 2013 - Microsoft finally have an email solution designed for high availability and load balancing
In Exchange Server 2013, there are two basic building blocks – the Client Access Array and the Database Availability Group (DAG)...