Insights from the load balancer experts

Reshaping storage architecture in the age of AI: HPE Discover 2024

As an HPE partner, we were thrilled to be a Startup Innovation Sponsor at this year's HPE Discovery Day in Las Vegas...

Joshua Turnbull

• 3 mins

Security

How to automate SSL/TLS certificate renewal with Let's Encrypt

How many engineers does it take to renew an SSL/TLS certificate? Several, you might joke. But you may not be far wrong!..

Damian Pacuszka

• 9 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

F5 BIG-IP vulnerability remediation and mitigation

The identification of vulnerabilities can be done in several ways. Here are the methods proposed and supported by F5, and the steps needed to conduct them...

Azeddine Ait Kaddour

• 9 mins

How to overcome the peculiarities of load balancing Cisco ACI environments

A customer was having challenges deploying load balancers in their Cisco ACI environment. So we set to work finding a solution...

Greg Ashwell

• 7 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How to (proactively) manage Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities

How to stay on top of any NetScaler vulnerabilities to galvanize your network security...

Mick Hilhorst

• 5 mins

Open source

See who's really visiting your website: Achieving IP transparency with the Proxy Protocol

There are a few different ways to achieve IP transparency, but one of the most effective is with the help of the great Proxy Protocol...

Damian Pacuszka

• 5 mins

Security

Loadbalancer proud to announce ISO 27001:2022 compliance with NQA certification

Loadbalancer is proud to announce that it is now formally ISO 27001 compliant, cementing our position as a market-leader in Application Delivery solutions...

Ash Jenvey

• 3 mins

Security

The futility of vulnerability scans: Why they're not worth your time and energy!

We all want to protect ourselves from cyberattacks, and any tool that can help us proactively monitor our networks and systems has got to be a good thing, right?..

Damian Pacuszka

• 5 mins

Navigating the complexities of Citrix NetScaler pooled licensing

My objective is to offer an opinion on the complexities of their pooled license and highlight some important considerations to be aware of...

Joshua Turnbull

• 4 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How do you connect your Kemp LoadMaster to the ADC Portal?

Once the Portal has a correctly configured Shuttle, it is then able to securely communicate with your Kemp...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 9 mins

High Availability

Do you really need 5 different ways to back up a load balancer?

Well, do you? After all, everyone likes to have choices, don't they?..

Dave Saunders

• 6 mins

How-tos

What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?

Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..

Damian Pacuszka

• 5 mins

Have you actually tested that you can restore your Kemp LoadMaster backup?

OK, so I probably should have read the manual first... But what kind of engineer does that?!..

Dave Saunders

• 4 mins

Troubleshooting F5 BIG-IP update issues

F5 BIG-IP is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully update...

Azeddine Ait Kaddour

• 10 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How to backup an F5 BIG-IP, without falling victim to some of the potential pitfalls

F5 BIG-IP is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully deploy and maintain...

Azeddine Ait Kaddour

• 7 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How to manage all your load balancers from one simple web based platform

We're super excited to announce the expansion of our portfolio, offering a broader range of Application Delivery solutions; namely our new, vendor-agnostic Application Delivery Platform, the Loadbalancer ADC Portal...

Richard Halcrow

• 4 mins

Comparisons

Load balancer migration: F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) i2600 alternatives

There are so many benefits to moving away from the F5 LTM i2600, you'd be crazy not to at least explore your options...

Joshua Turnbull

• 4 mins

Why are customers switching from VMware NSX to dedicated application load balancers?

The cost and complexity of NSX may mean it is no longer fit for purpose...

Greg Ashwell

• 5 mins

How does the Loadbalancer ADC Portal securely connect to your network?

With mTLS, the client is required to present its certificate to the server (and visa versa). Hence mutual certificate authentication occurs. This double layer of authentication provides an additional layer of protection against impersonation attacks...

Andrew Zak

• 3 mins

Healthcare

How to secure high availability for smaller-scale medical imaging PACS deployments

In the world of medical imaging, where Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) solutions are vital for the storage and management of critical medical imaging data, high availability, even in smaller-scale environments, is imperative...

Greg Ashwell

• 4 mins

Performance

How to enable single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for high-performance load balancing

The single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) interface is an extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification. SR-IOV allows a device, such as a network adapter, to separate access to its resources among various PCIe hardware functions...

Greg Ashwell

• 5 mins

Storage

Announcing Loadbalancer.org's new partnership with HPE GreenLake

Loadbalancer is frequently recommended by HPE, mainly because they are less complex and easier to work with than some other providers. They add value right from the discovery stage, all the way through to implementation and maintenance...

Joshua Turnbull

• 3 mins

Comparisons

What load balancer? Compare F5, Citrix, A10, Radware, NGINX, HAProxy Enterprise, AVI Networks, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org

At the very least, this blog should save you hours of Googling!..

Richard Halcrow

• 6 mins

Application Management

Tired of managing large-scale ADC infrastructure? Suffer no more!

Managing lots of disparate load balancers is a complete pain, and an increasing risk to application delivery...

Joshua Turnbull

• 5 mins