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Reviews and Comparisons
Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important George Booth
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products.

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Healthcare
FHIR: the key to unlocking interoperability in EHR? Himakshi Goswami
What is FHIR? What makes it the hottest topic of discussion in healthcare IT? How does the future of healthcare look like with this new standard in place? Let us tell you in our latest blog!

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How-To's
Smart, secure encryption with SNI Neil Stone
As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...

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Object Storage
Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage Himakshi Goswami
Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked.

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News
Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default Malcolm Turnbull
As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted by Google on the instructions of the Trump administration. All this high-profile paranoia about security got me thinking about our approach to the subject as we prepare to release v8.3.7 of the load balancer appliance...

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Print
Printing without pain: How to scale print environments and avoid downtime Imannuel Graham
Print environments often bring together multiple technologies and applications, which can present challenges. There’s the issue of planned downtime: end-users may need to make manual changes to their network when print services fail, taking servers out of production for maintenance or updates...

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Healthcare
The need for load balancing in medical imaging PACSman - Michael Cannavo
Medical information and imaging systems are expected to operate like a luxury automobile. You get in, turn the key, it starts and takes you to where you want to go. It’s not about what’

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Healthcare
Load balancing diagnostic medical imaging — Strengthening the radiology workflow James Loveday
An efficient, resilient radiology workflow is crucial to delivering the best patient care. A complex and ever-changing environment, often with resource constraints, requires a considered approach.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
How an NHS trust keeps critical medical systems up and running at all times Rosalind Bootle
The use of digital imaging within the Healthcare industry is exploding at an unprecedented rate. Find out how we helped an NHS trust achieve zero downtime for its PACS.

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How-To's
How-To's
How to YAML your load balancer deployment Andrew Smalley
Code for a new API interface to take YAML and post it to an LBCLI command.

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Reviews and Comparisons
Reviews and Comparisons
Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important George Booth
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products.

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HAProxy
HAProxy
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but… Andrew Howe
Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it.

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Object Storage
Object Storage
How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data Himakshi Goswami
There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data .

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How-To's
How-To's
How to automate load balancer deployments, Part 2! Andrew Smalley
For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair.

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Healthcare
Healthcare
FHIR: the key to unlocking interoperability in EHR? Himakshi Goswami
What is FHIR? What makes it the hottest topic of discussion in healthcare IT? How does the future of healthcare look like with this new standard in place? Let us tell you in our latest blog!

6 min read

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News
COVID-19 Update: Loadbalancer.org still working hard to keep your business flowing Malcolm Turnbull
The health and wellbeing of our employees, customers and partners is our primary concern, but while the majority of our teams around the world are in lockdown and sheltering in place, Loadbalancer.org continues to operate at full capacity.

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How-To's
How-To's
How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out.

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Security
Security
Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020) Tom Hopkins
A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers.

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News
News
Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet Tom Hopkins
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?

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How-To's
How-To's
Top tips for zero downtime when you work from home Himakshi Goswami
With work-from-home becoming the new reality, employees across organizations look for useful techniques to do it the right way. From setting up your own home office to staying productive, we bring you the top tips to manage it like a pro!

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Events
Events
Do we still need International Women’s Day (IWD)? Karen Turnbull
International Women's Day (IWD): Does it still matter? Let's hear it from Karen Turnbull, co-founder and COO of Loadbalancer.org!

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Events
Events
Talking free and open-source at FOSDEM 2020 Peter Statham
Peter Statham talks about how it was to be a part of the 20th edition of FOSDEM - Europe's biggest free and open-source event!

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Healthcare
Healthcare
Load balancing: the backbone of seamless healthcare interoperability Himakshi Goswami
Just like you and I, healthcare systems now talk to each other. Your data can be shared and accessed by all the stakeholders involved in the process of your treatment. To know more, read our blog on healthcare interoperability.

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HAProxy
HAProxy
HAProxy Conference 2019 Andrew Howe
We recently attended the inaugural HAProxy Conference in Amsterdam. Loadbalancer.org are proud to be part of the HAProxy community and we were glad to be involved with the event.

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Amazon AWS
Amazon AWS
AWS Reservations, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances Aaron West
I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans".

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How-To's
How-To's
Security through geography: blocking traffic by country, continent, or IP address using ModSecurity Andrew Howe
Malicious-looking web traffic from the other side of the globe is hitting your site. One solution is to block traffic originating in the offending country, assuming you don’t have customers there. With our WAF it’s possible to block inbound traffic by location adding an extra layer of security...

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Events
Events
What the hack! Andrew Zak
Andrew Zak shares first-hand experience of participating in the south coast’s biggest hackathon held at the University of Portsmouth. Hack Pompey is a Portsmouth based social hack event for people from all backgrounds and

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How-To's
How-To's
Smart, secure encryption with SNI Neil Stone
As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...

4 min read

Read more
Object Storage
Object Storage
Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage Himakshi Goswami
Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked.

4 min read

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Print
Print
Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check Imannuel Graham
Over the past year I've written a few blogs about load balancing print servers and print managed solutions. If you haven’t already deployed print servers in HA, please don't fret. It is a relatively

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Amazon AWS
Amazon AWS
Choosing the best load balancer for AWS Neil Hosking
You’re moving over to Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you know you’ll find a broad set of global cloud-based services. These services help organizations like yours to move faster, lower IT costs, and

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Web Filters / Proxy
Web Filters / Proxy
Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall Aaron West
Loadbalancer.org’s evolving approach to partnerships reflects what’s at the heart of our ethos. The human element builds understanding, and the better we can understand our partners, the better we can meet their needs.

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Security
Security
SACK Panic: What is it, and is it actually time to panic? Andrew Howe
Four closely related vulnerabilities regarding TCP handling in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels were publicly disclosed on 17 June 2019. Dubbed as “SACK Panic”, the main vulnerability can cause a Linux operating system to crash

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News
News
Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default Malcolm Turnbull
As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted by Google on the instructions of the Trump administration. All this high-profile paranoia about security got me thinking about our approach to the subject as we prepare to release v8.3.7 of the load balancer appliance...

4 min read

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How-To's
How-To's
How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS? Neil Hosking
I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to write

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