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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Performance
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...
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...
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...
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?..
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?..
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...
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?..
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...
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'...
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?"..
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!..