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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

• 3 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: When looks aren't everything

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

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...

Oliver Warren

• 3 mins

Application Management

Nutanix Ready, a great platform now comes with a certified load balancer

We have built upon our existing strengths in virtualized environments to become Nutanix certified, with the addition of support for Nutanix AHV positions...

James Loveday

• 1 min

Events

The Queen's award deserves a royal celebration, what's next?

The awards recognise outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development...

Annu Sroa

• 3 mins

Comparisons

Loadbalancer.org: The IT Central Station community weighs in

One of the top themes that has come up in our users’ reviews is their unparalleled technical support:..

Danielle Felder

• 3 mins

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...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

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)...

Gilad Maayan

• 7 mins

HAProxy

What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer?

It's really annoying when people believe that something traditional (proven to work) is somehow worse, than something that is modern (looks like a cool idea)...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Open source

Does the new multi-threaded support in HAProxy finally solve the 10G problem?

It’s no big secret that a single processor can only handle so much processing in a given time. So what happens when you reach the limits of what a single processor can handle? Simple, you add more processors...

Neil Stone

• 7 mins

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...

Thorsten Wetzig

• 13 mins

Events

American customer service, German engineering and British values bring royal recognition for Loadbalancer.org

Here at Loadbalancer.org, we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our customers, partners and staff. Coinciding with the opening of our new Californian support office in San Mateo; Loadbalancer.org has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2018, International Trade...

Annu Sroa

• 3 mins

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...

Tom Kacperski

• 8 mins