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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
They might share a similar feature checklist, but they're engineered for entirely different audiences...
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Application Management
Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Unlocking the power of Endurance: A beginner's API guide for smarter load balancing
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
We asked ourselves: how can we make our load balancers not just a component, but a fully integrated part of a modern, automated environment?..
Building Endurance: A load balancer with a clear purpose
Andrew Zak
Head of Development
Get the inside story on why Endurance was created. Our Enterprise platform served us well, but modern infrastructure demands more...
Microsoft NLB is finally going End of Life — so what next?!
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...