Latest How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution Imagine explaining the issue to a friend. Be specific. Instead of "The system isn't working," tell us what you're trying to do and what happens instead.
Open source NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF) The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
WAF How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF) Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..
HAProxy Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...
WAF Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF We’re often asked how to configure our load balancer to protect both web servers and users...
Print Load balancing PaperCut Version 20 PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities...
How-tos How to YAML your load balancer deployment With this, we now have the YAML interface and a method to post the contents!..
Open source How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out...
AWS / Azure / GCP AWS Reservations, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans"...
How-tos Security through geography: blocking traffic by country, continent, or IP address using ModSecurity Imagine you’re running a business and you often see malicious-looking web traffic from the other side of the globe hitting your website...
How-tos Smart, secure encryption with SNI In the early days of the Internet, there was very little encrypted traffic. People simply trusted that nobody was out to get them. But later on, security and encryption became an important part of online life...
Print Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check If you haven’t already deployed print servers with high availability, please don't fret. It is a relatively simple and straightforward process,..
Comparisons How should you compare load balancers? I didn't ask anything about the load balancer's features, because we already know the market is mature and I have no unusual requirements. I also didn't ask about the load balancer's maximum performance...
AWS / Azure / GCP Choosing the best load balancer for AWS You’re moving over to Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you know you’ll find a broad set of global cloud-based services. These services help organizations like yours to move faster, lower IT costs, and scale...
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...
How-tos How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS? I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to explain the process in more detail...
Security FTPS Implicit vs FTPS Explicit: Who will win? Implementation of FTP and configuration of your firewalls can be cumbersome, especially when it comes to being secure during your file transfer...
Application Management Load Balancing Exchange 2016 Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server...
HAProxy How to write an external health check script for HAProxy Loadbalancer.org were the original sponsors of the external health check mechanism in HAProxy. We think it's an invaluable tool when you need something a bit special...
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? Performance is not generally an issue when load balancing multiple applications - but maintenance is...
WAF Brute force login: Simple protection techniques with the ModSecurity WAF The web-based login to your application is a juicy target for hackers. And once they get past the login, they can cause you some serious pain...
Application Management Monitoring Loadbalancer.org appliances using OmniCenter from Netreo OmniCenter is a server monitoring, alerting and reporting product which can be deployed to monitor your whole network/infrastructure, providing a single place to view of all systems and alerting you if there are any problems...
Performance Load balancing your load balancers for a crazy amount of SSL TPS The plan is to use an inexpensive pair of load balancers - using Layer 4 DR mode for maximum throughput and transparency - to load balance some more mid to high-end load balancers. This enables us to handle the SSL offload at a much more affordable price than simply buying a big box...
AWS / Azure / GCP How to design a disaster recovery plan for your cloud infrastructure To design a well-targeted disaster recovery plan, you need to work out two key metrics: the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)...