Insights from the load balancer experts

Comparisons

Will Richard Gabriel's UNIX "worse is better" theory ring true for load balancing software development in 2023?

Which model will meet your needs, and are the established "worse is better" and "right is better" philosophies still relevant?..

Andrew Zak

• 6 mins

Automation

Automation: what's the difference between management and orchestration?

What exactly do we mean by 'automation'? And which tools work best for each scenario?..

Jeff Gosden

• 5 mins

Education

Load balancing Moodle's learning application system (LMS)

Moodle is a great platform for learning, but requires load balancing to facilitate the secure and timely distribution and delivery of that data...

Victor Moldovan

• 7 mins

Automation

Using Grafana with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

How many times have you looked at the HAProxy report and thought, what on earth is this all about?! What are the busiest times on my Loadbalancer? Which Real Server is busy? How much traffic is going through my VIPs?..

Jeff Gosden

• 5 mins

Open source

Why is public cloud potentially a bad idea from a programmer's perspective?

Cloud may be a developers best friend, but it can also be a programmer's worst enemy...

Peter Statham

• 5 mins

Performance

What transceiver do I need for my load balancer?

Transceivers are known by many names: combination transmitters/receivers, optical transceivers, optics, fiber optic transceivers, Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICS), 'that bit you plug into your fiber port'...

Richard Halcrow

• 5 mins

Comparisons

Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques

The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..

Dave Saunders

• 9 mins

Comparisons

What is the difference between a hardware and virtual load balancer?

This is not a blog telling you what appliance you should buy. It's simply a blog explaining the core differences, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each...

Richard Halcrow

• 3 mins

Comparisons

How Loadbalancer.org helped this customer migrate seamlessly from Snapt Nova

Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications...

Joshua Turnbull

• 6 mins

How-tos

Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance

With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...

Jeff Gosden

• 6 mins

HAProxy

Oh SNAPT! Where's my load balancer?

I was genuinely shocked and a little sad hearing the news that SNAPT has gone bust. They were a great company, with a nice product and more importantly — nice people...

Jeff Gosden

• 7 mins

Healthcare

How my breast cancer treatment highlighted loopholes in patient care and made me fearful for the future of medical imaging

Why I think NHS hospitals urgently need to modernize their IT architecture if they are to successfully adapt to variable operating models, meet patient demand, and improve treatment options for women with breast cancer...

Karen Turnbull

• 7 mins

Storage

Loadbalancer creates a tailored load balancer for Cloudian to take their object storage solutions to the next level

The tailored HyperBalance load balancer will optimize Cloudian's object storage applications, allowing them to seamlessly deliver the high availability their customers demand...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

How-tos

Using Postman to upload certificates to your Loadbalancer.org appliance

You don't need me to tell you that Postman is an API platform used for building and using APIs, designed to make your life a whole lot easier!..

Jeff Gosden

• 3 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

Why move your applications to the cloud?

Talking about the cloud and actually moving to the cloud are two very different things...

Tyrone Talbot-Kennedy

• 4 mins

How-tos

How to load balance and optimize Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

If you want safe, easy-to-use object storage software then the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is it. But why, and how, can you optimize this solution with load balancing?..

Liam Canavan

• 2 mins

High Availability

Proactive network management for business continuity

We'd all rather prevent a disaster than have to live with the consequences of one...

Kashim Cooper

• 5 mins

How-tos

How to load balance MinIO object storage

We're going to have a look at setting up a Layer 7 VIP, which will connect back to our MinIO servers...

Tyrone Talbot-Kennedy

• 5 mins

Load balancing object storage in hospitals

The use case for object storage in hospitals, and why it needs a dedicated load balancing solution...

James Loveday

• 5 mins

Comparisons

Tailoring — The modern way to make your product indestructible

Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability...

Jake Borman

• 4 mins

How-tos

Using Postman with the Loadbalancer.org API

Before we can connect to the loadbalancer appliance using SSH, we first need to allow this action through the Appliance Security Options via Local Configuration and then, Security...

Jeff Gosden

• 4 mins

Use Case

How Loadbalancer.org helped deliver PACS high availability for a group of large enterprise hospitals in the Middle East

As with the majority of Loadbalancer.org's projects in the Middle East, the goal of this project was to help a group of hospitals achieve highly available medical imaging systems...

George Booth

• 4 mins

High Availability

The dangers of not having a high availability setup for your load balancer — as well as your applications!

Why do you need TWO load balancers?..

Dave Scammell

• 3 mins

WAF

Handling large requests with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) while avoiding Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

Sometimes, we need to pass unusually large HTTP requests through our WAF stack...

Andrew Howe

• 7 mins