Insights from the load balancer experts

Centralized management for enhanced security with the ADC Portal

You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...

Richard Halcrow

• 3 mins

How-tos

Three scenarios for implementing time-based security and content switching on your load balancer

It can sometimes be useful to make load balancing decisions based on the time and date. This allows you to conditionally refuse or redirect connections based on the time they're received...

Andrew Howe

• 10 mins

How-tos

How to deploy a Load balancer appliance on Proxmox

Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...

Neil Stone

• 6 mins

Security

Should an load balancer be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?

There are two schools of thought on this: ‘yes, it should’ and ‘no, it shouldn't’. Let's look at the arguments both for and against...

Neil Hosking

• 10 mins

Comparisons

How do F5, Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org ADCs compare?

To save you some time, here's a quick summary of how F5, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org compare on the big three: price, features, and ease of use...

Joshua Turnbull

• 4 mins

Application Management

What's wrong with round-robin DNS?

Round-robin DNS is a technique that distributes traffic across multiple servers by rotating through a list of IP addresses associated with a single hostname...

Joe Robinson

• 6 mins

Security

OWASP doesn't want you to have crAPI security

Here's what we learned from crAPI about API security, and how a Web Application Firewall (WAF) can help you take things one step further...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 6 mins

Comparisons

Loadbalancer.org vs F5: Which ADC for your enterprise imaging applications?

Why is Loadbalancer.org the market leader in load balancing medical imaging applications? And what DON'T you get from F5?..

Joshua Turnbull

• 7 mins

Security

The role of load balancers in zero trust architectures

Getting on board with zero trust is the easy part. Actually applying these principles to your architecture is less black and white...

Dave Saunders

• 7 mins

Events

Hack Pompey 2023: The power of innovation

Loadbalancer.org was proud sponsor and participant at the south coast’s biggest hackathon, held at the University of Portsmouth...

Andrew Zak

• 3 mins

Healthcare

How Loadbalancer.org provided this medical imaging vendor with more technical and commercial flexibility in AWS

Working with this medical imaging vendor to provide a tailored load balancing solution for their medical imaging platform in the public cloud...

Liam Canavan

• 4 mins

Storage

How Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) can help object storage vendors increase their margins in an economic downturn

With IT spend under the microscope, data storage vendors are unlikely to escape scrutiny, making it harder for them to win new business and hit targets...

Jebez Erickson

• 6 mins

Healthcare

My concerns about our current approach to cardiology imaging

I've experienced first hand some of the pain experienced by our healthcare partners on a daily basis, caused by technology and equipment that doesn't meet the needs of clinicians or patients...

Zia Paul-Birabi

• 4 mins

How-tos

How to add loopback interfaces on Windows with PowerShell

One of the most frequent issues I encounter when customers are setting up a loopback adapter on Windows as part of their DR mode deployment is the confusion over which commands to enter...

Jon Morby

• 2 mins

Healthcare

Loadbalancer.org helps NHS Trust optimize the performance of its PaperCut MF print management software and meet their cost savings target

Print plays an uncelebrated but fundamental part in the timely delivery of patient care...

Liam Canavan

• 4 mins

WAF

Report back from the OWASP Core Rule Set Community Summit and OWASP Global AppSec 2023: The WAF conundrum

I had the privilege of speaking in Dublin at this year's OWASP Core Rule Set Community Summit before then attending OWASP Global AppSec immediately afterwards...

Andrew Howe

• 4 mins

Healthcare

Arab Health 2023: How to achieve consumer centricity in radiology

Top of mind was the increasing need for vendors to adapt to the ever growing demands of their customers and become more consumer centric...

Joshua Turnbull

• 4 mins

How-tos

How to create an SSL certificate in Linux

I thought I would try and cover the basics here by explaining how to create an SSL certificate and the various files that you'll end up with...

Jon Morby

• 4 mins

Comparisons

A thank you from Loadbalancer.org's Co-Founders: Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions

Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Healthcare

DICOM viewers: Can you recommend a free one I can trust?

After about an hour of searching I finally found two viewers that I can recommend...

Andrei Grigoras

• 3 mins

Automation

Automating load balancer management with Ansible Playbooks

Ansible is an open source project sponsored by RedHat, and is the simplest way to automate IT tasks...

Jeff Gosden

• 5 mins

High Availability

What is network interface bonding and what might you use it for?

There are several ways you can bond a network interface and two primary reasons why you might want to do so...

Jon Morby

• 5 mins

High Availability

Lessons from RSNA 2022: Are vendor attitudes to high availability (HA) at a tipping point?

The RSNA Annual Meeting was very much back in business this year — with footfall, and exhibits, back to their pre-pandemic buzz. But there was one thing that had changed...

Liam Canavan

• 3 mins

High Availability

Things to consider when buying a load balancer

There are a whole host of factors that will influence your choice. However, what I've tried to do here is pull together some key questions you'll need to think about, based on my personal experience, to help you articulate what you need...

Richard Halcrow

• 5 mins