Malcolm Turnbull, Co-Founder of Loadbalancer.org, is a foundational authority with 20+ years of uptime industry experience. As the original engineer, his expertise is based on championing open-source load balancing (HAProxy/LVS) to deliver clever, not complex, solutions. He provides deep, technical insight on high-availability, performance optimization, security, and software development philosophies. He also loves to play devil’s advocate in any conversation!
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...
An engineer at a business using Darktrace, confessed that many IT staff ignored the pricey security software because it sent so many false alerts...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We thought it was about time we bought our very own office building!..
Anomaly score based blocking is more flexible and effective than simple first error blocking...
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks can be used to degrade or cripple the functionality of a site...
