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Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture.
Insights from the load balancer experts
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal
As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
How-tos
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
Security
How to stop web form spam — use a simple honey pot trap in ModSecurity...
How frustrating do you find it when hackers or robots fill in your website forms with "Buy Viagra Now!" type spam?..
Comparisons
Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison
If you are trying to decide which load balancer product is right for your business, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s a market of two extremes...
Security
Stack Clash and Loadbalancer.org
The long and short of it is, there are updates to the Linux kernel and glibc packages which will 'fix' the issue..
How-tos
Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use?
Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs. Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some awkward conversations with customers that chose the wrong method...
Comparisons
Lost sale lessons
We have been fortunate to serve some of the biggest names in their respective industries because they recognised our best assets...
Comparisons
15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really
If you want to test your site against this kind of attack, slow attacks like this are quite inexpensive for attackers to launch, and they don't need control of many remote hosts in order to launch an effective attack...
Education
Leading European research university maintains top-class website with Loadbalancer.org
“Now if one of our servers was to go down, we wouldn’t worry too much because we know that with Loadbalancer.org’s Enterprise MAX Clustered Pair in place it’s not really going to be much of a problem,” says Braam...
Layer 7 Reverse Proxy
What exactly is a reverse proxy? Reverse proxy v forward proxy
Technically, the only mode on a load balancer that is a real Reverse Proxy is Layer 7 mode. Whereas all Layer 4 load balancing modes such as NAT, DR and TUN are nothing like a reverse proxy. The clients are effectively talking directly (transparently) to the backend servers...
Comparisons
Great products don't need to be sold
Simply reeling off a list of product benefits doesn’t cut it...
Performance
Voice Activated Load Balancing? Could it actually work
We decided that we would like to be able to change server states and bring them online, offline or drain them. So asking Alexa to do this would look like “Alexa ask Val to change status of website1 to drain”. So we started work with this as our goal...
Events
April Fool antics
After the recent introduction of Enterprise Ultra to our hardware family, plus the recent software update 8.2.4. We are pleased to finally announce our new Voice Activated Load Balancer - Enterprise VAL...
AWS / Azure / GCP
IAM what I am
For several years, if an instance was launched in AWS and during the initial configuration an IAM role was not defined, the only option available was to stop/terminate the instance and launch another, however, this has now changed!..
Healthcare
DelftDI recommends Loadbalancer.org for load balancing critical medical imaging systems
The stability of the Loadbalancer.org products enables DelftDI to ensure the high availability of its medical imaging solutions...
How-tos
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise VA with oVirt(RHEV) 4.1
The appliance works quite nicely in a oVirt environment and should work just as well with a full Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization environment (RHEV)!..
Microsoft
MS SQL Health Check
Follow the instructions below to install and configure the external health check, and once you've completed the steps you can use the health check for either layer 4 (LVS) or layer 7 (HAproxy) clusters...
Comparisons
Do you remember when you could get fired — for not buying F5?
A pair of F5s is a great solution, but mainly if you need to run a crazy number of applications and servers through a single device. In that case, you definitely need an expensive, complicated, over-specified and over-engineered single point of failure...
HAProxy
Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016
HAProxy Technologies' ALOHA Pocket is a full-featured ALOHA Load Balancer running on a light USB-powered hardware that easily fits in a pocket, meaning it's possible to carry it everywhere to run tests and demos...
How-tos
Loadbalancer.org with Let's Encrypt - quick and dirty!
Let’s Encrypt offers us a free way to get SSL certificates with the aim of being less complex than other current solutions...
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...
Events
IP EXPO Europe 2016
We engaged in some great conversations with people over the two days. This is why we love IP EXPO - talking through the problems customers are experiencing today...
Security
Blocking Japan with ModSecurity and Maxmind Lite
The Web Application Firewall is based on ModSecurity which is an open source WAF for Apache, IIS, and Nginx for protecting against a many variety of attacks and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and logging...
Open source
Transparent HAProxy in Azure using TProxy
HAProxy is an excellent choice if you need layer 7 functionality, but its a full reverse-proxy, so the application thinks that all of the traffic is coming from HAProxys IP - rather than the clients...
Healthcare
I didn't realise NTP was so important for medical imaging systems like PACS and VNA
We can write custom health checks specific to your environment checking availability of servers as well as other backend systems such as REST servers, databases and storage...