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ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB

Envoy was never optimized for sustained, high-throughput, state-aware storage traffic across multiple protocols simultaneously...

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Application Management September 23, 2025

Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance

Damian Pacuszka Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer

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Storage September 18, 2025

Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'

Joe Robinson Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager

GSLB August 15, 2024

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

Joe Robinson Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager

Microsoft

June 25, 2025

Microsoft NLB is finally going End of Life — so what next?!

Joshua Turnbull Head of Strategy

Microsoft NLB is rumoured to be going End of Life. If you’re still using it, now is the perfect time to consider a smarter alternative...

WAF

June 2, 2025

Extending the ModSecurity WAF, with Denial Of Service protection — using HAProxy

Dave Saunders Head of Client Engineering

Our long time partner Metaswitch, desperately needed to stop brute force login attacks on the enterprise phone system that they supply to large telecom companies...

Security

May 28, 2025

A simple Citrix SSO replacement; with Okta, Apache and OpenID Connect

Damian Pacuszka Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer

This setup allows you to leverage the power of a centralized identity management system to secure your web apps, while maintaining the flexibility and performance you expect...

Storage

May 27, 2025

The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy

Malcolm Turnbull Co-Founder & CEO

When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...

Healthcare

May 12, 2025

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Lenin Martinez Professional Services Engineer

Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

April 23, 2025

How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal

Mick Hilhorst Guest author

As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...

High Availability

April 4, 2025

How application delivery helps avoid travel disruption

Kyle Clinton SDR

Application Delivery Controllers help get me from A to B without incident in so many ways...

How-tos

April 3, 2025

How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution

Neil Stone Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader

Imagine explaining the issue to a friend. Be specific. Instead of "The system isn't working," tell us what you're trying to do and what happens instead...

HAProxy

March 26, 2025

How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid

Neil Stone Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader

A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...

GSLB

March 4, 2025

Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications

Damian Pacuszka Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer

DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...

Comparisons

January 24, 2025

Load balancer migration: The F5 alternative turning heads

Joshua Turnbull Head of Strategy

If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone...

How-tos

January 20, 2025

A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy

Kevin-Lucas Stroe Support Engineer

With numerous options available, choosing and configuring the right tool can be daunting...

Insights from the load balancer experts

ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB

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