Insights from the load balancer experts

Automation

Unlocking the power of Endurance: A beginner's API guide for smarter load balancing

We asked ourselves: how can we make our load balancers not just a component, but a fully integrated part of a modern, automated environment?..

Jeff Gosden

• 4 mins

Automation

Building Endurance: A load balancer with a clear purpose

Get the inside story on why Endurance was created. Our Enterprise platform served us well, but modern infrastructure demands more...

Andrew Zak

• 5 mins

Microsoft

Microsoft NLB is finally going End of Life — so what next?!

Microsoft NLB is rumoured to be going End of Life. If you’re still using it, now is the perfect time to consider a smarter alternative...

Joshua Turnbull

• 5 mins

WAF

Extending the ModSecurity WAF, with Denial Of Service protection — using HAProxy

Our long time partner Metaswitch, desperately needed to stop brute force login attacks on the enterprise phone system, that they supply to large telecom companies...

Dave Saunders

• 13 mins

Security

A simple Citrix SSO replacement; with Okta, Apache and OpenID Connect

This setup allows you to leverage the power of a centralized identity management system to secure your web apps, while maintaining the flexibility and performance you expect...

Damian Pacuszka

• 6 mins

Storage

The MSP guide to rate limiting Hitachi Vantara object storage with HAProxy

When you're providing object storage as a shared service, rate limits help ensure that no single user or application can overwhelm the system...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 5 mins

Healthcare

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...

Lenin Martinez

• 7 mins

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...

Mick Hilhorst

• 8 mins

High Availability

How application delivery helps avoid travel disruption

Application Delivery Controllers help get me from A to B without incident in so many ways...

Kyle Clinton

• 4 mins

How-tos

How to raise a support ticket like a pro: A guide for faster resolution

Imagine explaining the issue to a friend. Be specific. Instead of "The system isn't working," tell us what you're trying to do and what happens instead...

Neil Stone

• 3 mins

HAProxy

How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid

A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...

Neil Stone

• 4 mins

GSLB

Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications

DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...

Damian Pacuszka

• 13 mins

Comparisons

Load balancer migration: The F5 alternative turning heads

If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone...

Joshua Turnbull

• 9 mins

How-tos

A comprehensive guide to log monitoring with ModSecurity and HAProxy

With numerous options available, choosing and configuring the right tool can be daunting...

Kevin-Lucas Stroe

• 18 mins

HAProxy

How to limit connections with HAProxy, iptables or nftables

Recently I was asked to develop a method to rate limit connections passing through our load balancer to just one!   Why? One of our customers had a critical piece of proprietary software in their ar..

Andrei Grigoras

• 6 mins

Comparisons

Load balancer migration: The Citrix NetScaler alternative making waves

Citrix customers have been jumping ship in their hundreds, if not thousands, to this lesser-known competitor...

Greg Ashwell

• 9 mins

How to add SAML to your ADC Portal account

Note, SAML can only be added by the ADC Portal Admin for your Organization...

Greg Ashwell

• 3 mins

How-tos

A comprehensive guide to setting up and using Always On VPN (AOVPN)

Always On VPN (AOVPN) provides a seamless always-on connection that boosts security and the user experience...

Teodor Dodita

• 25 mins

Security

Why load balance Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions?

SIEM is an organizational octopus, if you will, of log collection, with a tentacle in every corner...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 6 mins

Security

Effortlessly monitor load balancer SSL certificates with the ADC Portal

If you use HTTPS (SSL or TLS) for your frontend, you must deploy an SSL/TLS certificate on your load balancer to ensure your data remains encrypted...

Kyle Clinton

• 4 mins

Healthcare

Load balancer hardware for Enterprise Imaging: Refresh now to avoid costly outages

Our goal is to notify users, so they understand the risks of older appliances...

Harvey Lloyd

• 4 mins

GSLB

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world...

Joe Robinson

• 22 mins

Automation

No one wants a backup — what they really need is guaranteed recovery

I couldn't agree more with David Bressler's fundamental point about jobs to be done and how companies often fail to solve the real problem for customers...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

High Availability

What's the difference between load balancer node roles and states, and how do they contribute to high availability?

Understanding node states and roles both contribute in their own unique ways to achieving high availability...

Damian Pacuszka

• 4 mins