Application Management
Improving the performance, reliability, and maintenance of applications
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to backup an F5 BIG-IP, without falling victim to some of the potential pitfalls
F5 BIG-IP is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully deploy and maintain...
Application Management
Tired of managing large-scale ADC infrastructure? Suffer no more!
Managing lots of disparate load balancers is a complete pain, and an increasing risk to application delivery...
How-tos
The pitfalls of backing up and restoring a Citrix NetScaler, and how to overcome them
Citrix NetScaler is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully deploy and maintain...
How-tos
How to update a Citrix NetScaler, and problems to watch out for
Maintenance, features, or a CVE are all good reasons to upgrade your NetScaler appliance. However, as with any complex task undertaken for the first time, it can get a little confusing...
Security
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...
The Loadbalancer ADC Portal backstory: vendor-agnostic centralized management
Our approach to software development has always been to listen to what our end users and technology providers are saying to us, and develop products that solve their specific issues...
Centralized management for enhanced security with the ADC Portal
You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...
Application Management
What's wrong with round-robin DNS?
Round-robin DNS is a technique that distributes traffic across multiple servers by rotating through a list of IP addresses associated with a single hostname...
Security
OWASP doesn't want you to have crAPI security
Here's what we learned from crAPI about API security, and how a Web Application Firewall (WAF) can help you take things one step further...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Why move your applications to the cloud?
Talking about the cloud and actually moving to the cloud are two very different things...
Media
Why Chris Moyles' nod to load balancing makes him an official #ADCHero!
On May 11th 2022, I was listening to the awesome Chris Moyles Show, on Radio when a site they were using crashed while they were on air...
High Availability
What's the point of load balancing?
Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!..
Education
Considerations for higher education institutions rolling out virtual desktops
There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software...
Performance
The importance of adding a load balancer to your test environments
Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?..
Education
Uptime in education: resilient applications in schools, colleges and universities
Here our Education Specialist at Loadbalancer.org, Harrison Rockensuss, looks at the fallout from Covid-19 and the ongoing need to embrace new digital ways of working...
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...
Application Management
How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service
A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...
Application Management
DC (direct current) powered application delivery: an energy-saving game changer for the data center industry?
The AC versus DC debate is ongoing. Find out which power supply works best when it comes to the modern day data center – and why...
Print
Load balancing PaperCut Version 20
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities...
Application Management
Load Balancing Exchange 2016
Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server...
Application Management
Monitoring Loadbalancer.org appliances using OmniCenter from Netreo
OmniCenter is a server monitoring, alerting and reporting product which can be deployed to monitor your whole network/infrastructure, providing a single place to view of all systems and alerting you if there are any problems...
Application Management
Nutanix Ready, a great platform now comes with a certified load balancer
We have built upon our existing strengths in virtualized environments to become Nutanix certified, with the addition of support for Nutanix AHV positions...
Microsoft
Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure
The Loadbalancer.org Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution...
Direct Server Return
Why Direct Server Return (DSR) is simply awesome
Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent, and super fast...