Insights from the load balancer experts

AWS / Azure / GCP

Choosing the best load balancer for AWS: Cloud conundrums

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...

Neil Hosking

• 3 mins

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 10 mins

Open source

Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall

We were delighted last week to host Smoothwall for a day with our team. Fuelled by coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, our discussions helped us learn from one another so that we can work together even more effectively...

Aaron West

• 3 mins

Security

SACK Panic: What is it, and is it actually time to panic?

Four closely related vulnerabilities regarding TCP handling in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels were publicly disclosed on 17 June 2019...

Andrew Howe

• 2 mins

Security

Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default

As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted OK, so Trump didn't actually say that about Huawei. But, given his recent declaration, it wouldn't surprise me if he did...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

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...

Neil Hosking

• 4 mins

Healthcare

HIMSS and ECR 2019: Working together for better healthcare data solutions

An incorrect frame length check could result in a read-past-bound which can cause a crash...

Jake Borman

• 3 mins

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...

Imannuel Graham

• 4 mins

Application Management

Load Balancing Exchange 2016

Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server...

Neil Hosking

• 4 mins

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...

Damian Pacuszka

• 10 mins

WAF

Why use a WAF? Because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Our helpdesk often encounters confusion about Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs - what they are, how to use them, and what issues they can potentially cause...

Imannuel Graham

• 5 mins

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.....

Imannuel Graham

• 8 mins

HAProxy

New year, new vulnerability: HAProxy critical security update

An incorrect frame length check could result in a read-past-bound which can cause a crash...

Annu Sroa

• 4 mins

Direct Server Return

15 years later, we still love DSR: Why Layer 4 DR mode rocks

For the uninitiated, Direct Server Return is a clever trick which entails directly routing packets to the chosen real server...

Andrew Howe

• 2 mins

Events

RSNA 2018: Future tech and present problems

Last month we made our annual visit to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago...

Jake Borman

• 4 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 4 mins

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...

Andrei Grigoras

• 5 mins

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...

Michael Cannavo

• 5 mins

WAF

Darktrace: A deep dive review

An engineer at a business using Darktrace, confessed that many IT staff ignored the pricey security software because it sent so many false alerts...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Healthcare

It all turned out OKI

This demonstrated to OKI that no matter how their customers' network infrastructure is configured, we have the deployment options to suit their needs...

Roman Humphreys

• 3 mins

HAProxy

HAProxy critical security update — to avoid simple(ish) DoS attack (20 September 2018)

A critical security issue has been found in HAProxy, leaving certain systems vulnerable to remote attack. We want to keep you informed, and we understand that this news might cause you some anxiety. But be reassured - most of our customers won’t be affected...

Annu Sroa

• 2 mins

Security

Let's Encrypt — how did we survive without it?

Let’s Encrypt is awesome! Not only is it more secure than your existing certificate authority. It's also reliable, scalable, fully automated — and free!..

Rob Congalton

• 8 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

FC Barcelona choose Loadbalancer.org in AWS for flexibility and security

With our 9 years expertise in making applications within AWS indestructible, Loadbalancer.org was able to provide FC Barcelona with an intelligent application delivery controller built on 15 years' worth of battle‑hardened software...

Ben Lewis

• 2 mins

Comparisons

Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price?

Typically, Citrix NetScaler customers have a few hundred load-balanced clusters, with 3+ Gbps and 10,000+ SSL transactions per second (TPS). Whereas your typical Kemp customer will have 2-5 load balanced clusters with less than 100 Mbps throughput and less than 5 SSL TPS...

Annu Sroa

• 7 mins