Insights from the load balancer experts

Comparisons

Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license

If you think migrating your load balancers to virtual or cloud would cost you big bucks, we've got some good news. Our Freedom License offers customers seamless migration – absolutely free!..

Richard Halcrow

• 3 mins

Print

Load balancing PaperCut Version 20

PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities...

Imannuel Graham

• 4 mins

How-tos

How to YAML your load balancer deployment

With this, we now have the YAML interface and a method to post the contents!..

Andrew Smalley

• 3 mins

Security

Healthcare IT should listen to Amazon's Werner Vogels: “Dance Like Nobody’s Watching. Encrypt Like Everyone Is”

Find out why Werner Vogels' comments ring especially true for healthcare data...

Aaron West

• 5 mins

Comparisons

Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important

So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products...

George Booth

• 4 mins

Performance

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…

Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...

Andrew Howe

• 3 mins

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 ...

Himakshi Goswami

• 4 mins

Automation

How to automate load balancer deployments (API / CLI / JSON / SOAP / PowerShell)

For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair...

Andrew Smalley

• 16 mins

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...

Andrei Grigoras

• 4 mins

Security

Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020)

A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers...

Tom Hopkins

• 1 min

AWS / Azure / GCP

Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet

Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?..

Tom Hopkins

• 5 mins

Events

Talking free and open-source at FOSDEM 2020

Peter Statham talks about how it was to be a part of the 20th edition of FOSDEM - Europe's biggest free and open-source event!..

Peter Statham

• 5 mins

Healthcare

Load balancing: the backbone of seamless healthcare interoperability

Just like you and I, healthcare systems now talk to each other. Your data can be shared and accessed by all the stakeholders involved in the process of your treatment. To know more, read our blog on healthcare interoperability...

Himakshi Goswami

• 4 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

AWS reservations, savings plans, and spot instances explained

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"...

Aaron West

• 6 mins

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...

Andrew Howe

• 5 mins

Events

What the hack!

Hack Pompey is a Portsmouth based social hack event for people from all backgrounds and disciplines to come together, collaborate and build something awesome...

Andrew Zak

• 3 mins

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...

Neil Stone

• 4 mins

Storage

Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage

Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked...

Himakshi Goswami

• 4 mins

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,..

Imannuel Graham

• 4 mins

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 6 mins

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