Where can I find good quality Load Balancer infromation?

Well that depends if you want it to be biased or not. A lot of our comperitors have started setting up dodgy comparison sites highlighting their best features and ignoring the draw backs.

I'm not saying that I'm un-biased when it comes to load balancers I have a pretty strong opinion. But, as far as I'm aware the chart bellow is an accurate comparison of load balancing hardware, price, perfomrance and capability:

Loadbalancer.org, Barracuda, Kemp & CAI all use various flavours of LVS as their code base. Of these vendors Loadbalancer.org is the only one with strong UK support.

Barracuda, Kemp & CAI are based in California.

CoyotePoint is a long established brand, and a good quality product. It is a FreeBSD implementation with similar properties to LVS (but probably lower performance.). Support is completely through the channel, so varies with location. They are based in California.

Zeus & F5 are load balancing proxies (F5 also has switching and good layer 4 options). F5 is by far the best product on the market if you want an uber solution, good kernel code, good support, seriously expensive....

Zeus is perfectly good and has advanced layer 7 capability (same as F5) but its expensive not kernel based and therefore needs seriously powerful hardware to run at anywhere near decent speed.

You can make of this what you will, and no doubt we will get tons of emails from other vendors with small corrections etc.

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