Malcolm Turnbull

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

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

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How do you connect your Kemp LoadMaster to the ADC Portal?

Once the Portal has a correctly configured Shuttle, it is then able to securely communicate with your Kemp...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 9 mins

Security

Why you don't need to worry about the novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)

We've had a few concerned customers asking about the Google disclosure of the recent huge DDoS attack, and the potential underlying vulnerability in some HTTP/2 servers...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

Comparisons

A thank you from Loadbalancer.org's Co-Founders: Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions

Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Storage

Cloudian takes object storage performance to the next level —with a tailored load balancer

Cloudian recently announced its new HyperBalance product, a highly customized OEM version of the Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

Security

Does Niagara Networks have the answer to scaling Secure Web Gateways all the way up to 100G?

Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

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?..

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Events

Keeping businesses flowing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Whether your organization is starting a slow return to normality or still working within enforced restrictions – we’re as committed as ever to keeping your business flowing during this period of uncertainty...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 1 min

Comparisons

How should you compare load balancers?

I didn't ask anything about the load balancer's features, because we already know the market is mature and I have no unusual requirements. I also didn't ask about the load balancer's maximum performance...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 6 mins

Comparisons

What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms?

The primary function of a load balancer is to keep your application running with no downtime. It is an invaluable tool for systems architects, and it has the benefit of being pretty simple to understand...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 10 mins

Security

Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default

As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted OK, so Trump didn't actually say that about Huawei. But, given his recent declaration, it wouldn't surprise me if he did...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

WAF

Darktrace: When looks aren't everything

An engineer at a business using Darktrace, confessed that many IT staff ignored the pricey security software because it sent so many false alerts...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

HAProxy

What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer?

It's really annoying when people believe that something traditional (proven to work) is somehow worse, than something that is modern (looks like a cool idea)...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

Comparisons

The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org...

My first piece of code was an animated fish tank (because I wasn't allowed a real one). I soon started dreaming of being a software developer and started learning machine code...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 7 mins

Comparisons

NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?

As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAProxy, it’s in my interests to combat the avalanche of NGINX+ marketing propaganda that I've seen over the last year. Let's call it an attempt to skewer fake news...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

Comparisons

JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison

You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.org, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new Peer Insights platform...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 8 mins

Security

Security through obscurity - double login protection made easy...

Security through obscurity is not a great idea when it is your ONLY protection technique. For example moving your SSH port from 22 -> 23 won't fool any hackers for long! However, I've always liked putting a 'double login' in front of important web sites to frustrate simple automated hacking tools...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

Comparisons

15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really

If you want to test your site against this kind of attack, slow attacks like this are quite inexpensive for attackers to launch, and they don't need control of many remote hosts in order to launch an effective attack...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 5 mins

Events

April Fool antics

After the recent introduction of Enterprise Ultra to our hardware family, plus the recent software update 8.2.4. We are pleased to finally announce our new Voice Activated Load Balancer - Enterprise VAL...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

Comparisons

Do you remember when you could get fired — for not buying F5?

A pair of F5s is a great solution, but mainly if you need to run a crazy number of applications and servers through a single device. In that case, you definitely need an expensive, complicated, over-specified and over-engineered single point of failure...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

Events

Loadbalancer.org buys new head office building in Portsmouth

We thought it was about time we bought our very own office building!..

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

Security

Blocking invalid range headers using ModSecurity and/or HAProxy (MS15-034 - CVE-2015-1635)

Anomaly score based blocking is more flexible and effective than simple first error blocking...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins