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Worked with 1st, 2nd & 3rd line technical support for the Royal Navy and corporate companies for over 20 years, Neil joined the Loadbalancer.org support team in September 2015 looking to develop his skill set across a wider variety of customer environments. When he’s not in the office Neil can be found cycling or visiting the cinema as well as watching his favorite TV shows including the Walking Dead.

Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org

Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org

For Enterprise 8.9, Loadbalancer.org added a new SSL Terminator for HAProxy, allowing for mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) configurations...

Employee configuring mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance

How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance

If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...

Should an ADC be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?

Should an ADC be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?

There are two schools of thought on this: ‘yes, it should’ and ‘no, it shouldn't’. Let's look at the arguments both for and against...

Load balancing Exchange 2019

Application Management

Load balancing Exchange 2019

Microsoft Exchange 2019 upholds the legacy of Exchange 2016, 2013 (and numerous earlier versions) by continuing to be the ubiquitous mail server and calendaring service of choice for small, medium and enterprise-level organizations the world over...

Choosing the best load balancer for AWS: Cloud conundrums

AWS / Azure / GCP

Choosing the best load balancer for AWS: Cloud conundrums

You’re moving over to Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you know you’ll find a broad set of global cloud-based services. These services help organizations like yours to move faster, lower IT costs, and scale...

How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS?

How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS?

I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to explain the process in more detail...

Load Balancing Exchange 2016

Application Management

Load Balancing Exchange 2016

Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server...

secure web gateways

Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use?

Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs. Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some awkward conversations with customers that chose the wrong method...

MS SQL Health Check

MS SQL Health Check

Follow the instructions below to install and configure the external health check, and once you've completed the steps you can use the health check for either layer 4 (LVS) or layer 7 (HAproxy) clusters...