Ollie is part of our Solutions Architecture team at Loadbalancer.org. He came straight from Southdowns College to become our first ever apprentice. Since then he has progressed up the ranks to become a Sales Engineer. When not at work Oliver is out with his friends playing or watching football.
Many things in tech are over-complicated for no reason, and iRules are a prime example of that.
Load balancers are built to help scale up your back end servers, to allow for the growth of users. But what if the load balancer could also grow with you?
We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair.
We love complex rules. Although, we have seen some pretty scary config files.
So you're probably here because you want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys. A quick fun fact: did you know the A+ and A rating are in fact the same?
If you want the configurations to differ slightly from the hardware to virtual appliance, such as changing IP's, speak to our support team so they can best advise.
In the load balancing world active/active has multiple meanings. And once you've got that hurdle out the way, you need to then work out whether you actually need it.
We've had a lot of frustrated F5 customers talk to us recently about the pain they are suffering,
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case.
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done.
A quick guide from our Solutions Engineer, Oliver Warren, outlining when, why and how to update your hardware, virtual and cloud Loadbalancer.org appliances.
The video is clearly pitched at tech enthusiasts who like to play with so-called ‘FREE’ stuff.
Performance is not generally an issue when load balancing multiple applications - but maintenance is.
OmniCenter is a server monitoring, alerting and reporting product which can be deployed to monitor your whole network/infrastructure, providing a single place to view of all systems and alerting you if there are any problems.
I dream of a world where people stop calling a *link balancer* a *load balancer* — because we don't sell link balancers!