Malcolm is the founder of Loadbalancer.org, a company that has generated more than 20 years strong organic growth using Open Source technology sold as packaged hardware & software solutions. He has a tendency to talk way too much and play devils advocate in any conversation.
This powerful piece of hardware can aggregate multiple web filters together to meet huge throughput demands.
Here our Loadbalancer.org Founder, Malcolm Turnbull, offers advice to anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer.
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?
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.
Find out how to choose the load balancer that's best for you.
Learn more about the the different load balancing methods, techniques and algorithms, and the pros and cons of each.
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...
These are scary times when it comes to cybersecurity. Following on from high-profile breaches at Equifax, British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg and more, it’s not surprising that companies are prepared to pay top dollar for the very best in security software. What does the very best look like? Well, it
If you Google 'modern load balancer', you will quickly find the awesome blog from Matt Klein — followed by some marketing fluff from AVI Networks and NGINX+. 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
I was part of the generation that grew up without computers. We played Cowboys and Indians and dreamed of going into space, or flying planes. When I was about 11 my friends started getting Sinclair Spectrums and Comodore 64s. Unfortunately, my parents were middle class and bought me an Amstrad
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 PeerInsights 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.
OK time for another embarrassing confession, "For the last 15 years Loadbalancer.org has never needed to use a load balancer!" But that all changed when some hacker decided to attack our website..... How can you trust a company that doesn't even use its own product? Well first let's look
So we had a fun weekend - and yes we played a little April fool...Well, it started as an April Fool. We've left the original blog below just so you can have a read if you missed it over the weekend. Funnily enough, what started as a coffee break
As a business owner, I love being able to rent software solutions in the cloud. It's flexible, fast to deploy and evaluate, easy to scale, and there's no large up-front capital investment. But what happens when you want to leave? If the provider doubles the price, halves the performance, or
You might not be old enough to remember the highly effective marketing campaign from IBM, that implied buying from anyone else would get you fired... However, I just read Kemp Technologies mildly amusing press release about replacing F5, and it got me thinking - Is it time that F5 starts
Loadbalancer.org is 13 years old, and we thought it was about time we bought our very own office building! Anyone who has visited our current UK office at the Technopole Portsmouth, will understand why we were feeling a bit claustrophobic. We have spent a very happy 7 years here
Times they are a Changin’ If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For times they are a-changin. Bob Dylan’s lyrics in *Times they are a-changin’*are quite poignant in our market: for you, as well as
Microsoft quietly patched a fairly nasty little bug (MS15-034) in IIS last month: A simple HTTP request with an invalid range header field value to either kill IIS, reveal data or remotely execute code! We haven't seen one of these in a while and obviously you are safe if you
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks can be especially effective against certain types of web application. If an application is highly dynamic or database-intensive it can be remarkably simple to degrade or cripple the functionality of a site. This blog describes some simple methods of mitigating single-source IP DOS attacks using
The media industry had lots of fun at the expense of e-commerce outlets on Black Friday mercilessly reporting on site crashes and outages. My wife yelled that I needed to 'fix the Internet' when Argos.co.uk would not respond immediately to her demands on Friday evening. However on closer
Understandably, we get quite a few requests for a product roadmap containing release notes and feature updates. We've had a chat about this internally and thought that it would be nice to have a permanent post on the blog that we change on the fly as and when customer requirements
In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster and you get pretty consistent and even load balancing. However with some applications such as RDS (Microsoft Terminal Servers), you might get very high load from just a few users doing heavy
Loadbalancer.org has always been about high-availability, that is the fundamental reason for our products existence. Performance has always been a nice side effect while maintainability of your application cluster is generally a key sub-set of the primary high-availability objective. However it's time for a confession, the default settings for