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Architecting the perfect Christmas? A Highly Available light display!
In my household, only 100% uptime will do!
Insights from the load balancer experts
HAProxy
Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
How-tos
What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?
Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..
Automation
Solving the Layer 4 ARP problem on Linux with Ansible
The ARP problem for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
HAProxy
Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?
Controversial advice for anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer...
Open source
Open source versus proprietary load balancers
Should you invest in a proprietary load balancer from one of the market leaders like F5? Or should you take a chance on open source load balancing software?..
Comparisons
Load balancer migration: Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant?
Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But sometimes they make you want to cry!..
Performance
Why won't NFSv3 just die already?
I ran into a problem recently where a customer was working to load balance NFS to their scale-out NAS product, they were saying that it mounted fine but “showmount -e” just wouldn’t work properly from their Linux client...
Comparisons
10G is dead. Long live 25G!
The need for speed has always been one of mankind's greatest loves...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Digital transformation: when should you move to the cloud?
There are a number of considerations around when and when not to use cloud, and I don't think there'll ever be a single 'this is the right time or the right scenario' to use it...
Print
Moving your print server to the cloud
The process of maintaining, supporting, and securing Print environments can be complicated and expensive – even for organizations that have the staff and budget to devote to it...
Application Management
Load balancing Exchange 2019
Microsoft Exchange 2019 upholds the legacy of Exchange 2016, 2013 (and numerous earlier versions) by continuing to be the ubiquitous mail server and calendaring service of choice for small, medium and enterprise-level organizations the world over...
Print
Hold on, printers need load balancing too?
It really boils down to what you are printing, the volume of print jobs, and often the application it comes from...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Three big benefits of cloud load balancing
From CRMs that store customer information and ERP systems that track product data to cloud-computing platforms that can host websites and run multiple applications – organizations are using more and more cloud-based solutions to meet various business requirements...
Comparisons
Multi-application verus dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Is the future in the cloud?
If you're building a brand new application today and you were delivering that out en masse to consumers, you would, in most cases, choose to deploy that in the cloud...
How-tos
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
High Availability
How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization
There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...
GSLB
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users...
Open source
Open source software: myth-busting, business benefits and FOSDEM '21
At the end of the day open source is really about having access to the source code for your tools and programs, to do whatever you want to do with it...
Healthcare
Digital pathology: five ways to ensure fast and successful adoption
There's an urgent need to digitize pathology services globally – and, in the UK in particular, the introduction of new digital pathology methods is considered a priority...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Relaunching our load balancer for multi and hybrid cloud environments
How did our cloud load balancer go from one of the first on the market to a trusted solution for hybrid and multi-cloud environments?..
Performance
Why use a reverse proxy?
For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...
Healthcare
Customer success story: bringing ultra-reliability, scalability and uninterrupted access to IBM PACS
In a mission-critical environment, zero downtime is essential. Therefore, application maintenance, performance updates, and security patches needed to be carried out without causing user interruptions or inconvenience...
High Availability
What is a load balancer? A comprehensive guide to load balancing
Hidden in data centers around the world, there are millions of load balancers that keep businesses and their applications fully functional 24/7 – making sure users enjoy a seamless and uninterrupted high-quality experience at every single click...
Open source
ModSecurity and the Case of the Never Decreasing Variables
In the world of web application security, it can be invaluable to consider a user's behaviour across the entire duration of their web app session...
Performance
Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?..