Insights from the load balancer experts

Storage

How can I super-charge my object storage solutions with load balancing?

Loadbalancer.org worked with this commercial bank to deliver a highly available, resilient, and scalable HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric object storage solution...

Jebez Erickson

• 4 mins

GSLB

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

We do a lot of work with object storage solution providers, and one of the main concerns that they have is throughput...

Joe Robinson

• 6 mins

Security

Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org

For Enterprise 8.9, Loadbalancer.org added a new SSL Terminator for HAProxy, allowing for mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) configurations...

Neil Hosking

• 6 mins

How-tos

How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance

If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...

Neil Hosking

• 3 mins

Use Case

How Loadbalancer.org helped this medical imaging vendor centrally manage their load balancing estate

Enhanced visibility for more efficient and secure ADC management...

Liam Canavan

• 3 mins

Security

Cybersecurity series: Five security attacks WAFs can help you with...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the role of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in application security, and what types of threat a WAF can help mitigate in your deployment...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 5 mins

Security

The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC

TLS encryption (formerly known as SSL encryption) is used to improve the safety of data exchanged over a network. But where should it sit in your network architecture?..

Neil Stone

• 6 mins

WAF

A beginner's guide to WAF: When and how should you use a Web Application Firewall?

Some network engineers think that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are so complicated, they've been known to run away and hide for days when they've encountered one...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 8 mins

Events

Lessons from InfoSec 2023: how to prevent a cyber crisis with a defense-in-depth strategy

The talk of the town at InfoSec 2023 was the evolving cyber security battleground, and the practical steps organizations might take in order to mitigate some of these threats...

Joshua Turnbull

• 5 mins

The Loadbalancer ADC Portal backstory: vendor-agnostic centralized management

Our approach to software development has always been to listen to what our end users and technology providers are saying to us, and develop products that solve their specific issues...

Andrew Zak

• 4 mins

WAF

Why you shouldn't lose sleep over the commercial end-of-life of ModSecurity

The ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) engine is set to go end-of-life (EOL) on 1 July 2024...

Andrew Howe

• 5 mins

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 Loadbalancer 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 a 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