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Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture.
Insights from the load balancer experts
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal
As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
How-tos
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?..
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?..
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...