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.
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.
Celebrating 20 years of clever, not complex, high availability solutions.
The tailored HyperBalance load balancer will optimize Cloudian's object storage applications, allowing them to seamlessly deliver the high availability their customers demand.
Network Security devices such as firewalls, WAF, SWG, IPS etc. are often deployed inline with bridge mode., which has two major problems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 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.
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.
We started using a cloud based SAAS product for one of our core business functions, and after about a year, we realised that the performance and flexibility of the online rental option wasn't quite good enough for us
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.
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
All of us here at Loadbalancer.org hope we are responding to your needs today and preparing for the future.
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.
The media industry had lots of fun at the expense of e-commerce outlets on Black Friday, mercilessly reporting on site crashes and outages.