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Comparisons
Scared of moving away from F5? Oliver Warren
How do I migrate from F5 safely? What should I watch out for?

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High Availability
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability? Oliver Warren
What are your options if you still want high availability but can't afford a conventional load balancing solution?

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Why tierless support? Aaron West
We’re often asked why we broke the mold with our support team and removed the tiers. Well, I wanted to go into that decision to justify why we did it and why I personally still think it’s really what makes the BEST SUPPORT TEAM in the world a reality at Loadbalancer.org!

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How can you survive without a load balancer in every home? Oliver Warren
How can you survive without a load balancer in every home?

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How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer Richard Halcrow
How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…

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Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant? Aaron West
Is your F5 so complex you're frightened to touch it, but you want to migrate? Get an expert to help stop your Jenga tower come crashing down.

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10G is dead. Long live 25G! Ged Ward
10G networking is dead. However, do we want – or really need – 25G?

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Multi-application or dedicated load balancing – which approach is best? Malcolm Turnbull
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?

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Redesigning customer service with consultative support Dave Saunders
Our IT support receives high praise from customers and partners alike – and it's all down to our consultative approach. But what does that mean?

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Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies Rosalind Bootle
Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers.

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Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system Himakshi Goswami
Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture.

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NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data? Himakshi Goswami
Scale-out NAS or object storage: which one should you choose for your business? We run through the pros and cons of each.

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Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms Richard Halcrow
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success. With the rise of digitalization in organizations, are you looking to migrate your IT infrastructure from the existing platform and try something new? Learn how we can help you in this, and beyond.

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What's the best 10G switch upgrade path - 40G or 25G? Ged Ward
How do we choose between the varying Ethernet technologies? We explore the simplest and most cost effective upgrade path.

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Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license Richard Halcrow
If you think migrating your load balancers to virtual or cloud would cost you big bucks, we've got some good news. Our Freedom License offers customers seamless migration – absolutely free!

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Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important George Booth
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products.

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AWS Reservations, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances Aaron West
I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans".

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How should you compare load balancers? Malcolm Turnbull
Find out how to choose the load balancer that's best for you.

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What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms? Malcolm Turnbull
Learn more about the the different load balancing methods, techniques and algorithms, and the pros and cons of each.

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Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall Aaron West
Loadbalancer.org’s evolving approach to partnerships reflects what’s at the heart of our ethos. The human element builds understanding, and the better we can understand our partners, the better we can meet their needs.

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Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price? Annu Sroa
F5 Networks is still clearly the leader in the application delivery market. But it's always worth considering other options, and the obvious alternative to F5 is Citrix. A blog comparing Citrix and F5 would be

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Nutanix Ready, a great platform now comes with a certified load balancer. James Loveday
We're pleased to announce that we are now certified as Nutanix Ready. The Enterprise VA range of software load balancers now deliver scalable, reliable and secure application delivery in Nutanix Acropolis. Building upon our existing

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Loadbalancer.org: The IT Central Station community weighs in Danielle Felder
Over the last few months, the team at IT Central Station reached out to Loadbalancer.org customers with one goal: to find out what they really thought about their experiences with Loadbalancer.org.

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What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer? Malcolm Turnbull
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

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Reading is believing: Can you trust customer reviews? Andrew Zak
If you've ever bought anything online, you've more than likely gone searching for reviews about a business. Based on your findings, it's likely to have heavily influenced whether you followed through with your purchase. However, should you trust a collection of random strangers thoughts

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No, it's not a bloody free load balancer — and never will be James Loveday
We exhibited at Cloud Expo Europe a few years ago, promoting the release of our cloud products; ENTERPRISE AWS + ENTERPRISE AZURE. We love trade shows. They provide a platform to meet existing customers, as well

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The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org.... Malcolm Turnbull
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

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