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Finding the right solution for your use case
Storage
Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system
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...
Storage
NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?
While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...
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Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...
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What's the best 10G switch upgrade path — 40G or 25G?
The explosion of information in our everyday lives has driven the technology market to create newer, faster technologies to cater for the storage and access to the data created...
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Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license
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
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...
AWS / Azure / GCP
AWS reservations, savings plans, and spot instances explained
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?
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...
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What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms?
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...
Open source
Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall
We were delighted last week to host Smoothwall for a day with our team. Fuelled by coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, our discussions helped us learn from one another so that we can work together even more effectively...
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Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price?
Typically, Citrix NetScaler customers have a few hundred load-balanced clusters, with 3+ Gbps and 10,000+ SSL transactions per second (TPS). Whereas your typical Kemp customer will have 2-5 load balanced clusters with less than 100 Mbps throughput and less than 5 SSL TPS...
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...
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Loadbalancer.org: The IT Central Station community weighs in
One of the top themes that has come up in our users’ reviews is their unparalleled technical support:..
HAProxy
What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer?
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)...
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No, it's not a bloody free load balancer — and never will be
Several people visiting our stand mentioned the announcement that Kemp Technologies had released a free load balancer. Understandably, they were interested to hear if we would be responding in kind...
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The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org....
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...
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Loadbalancer.org pricing — how much does it cost?
Our aim is always to deliver the features you want, without presenting you with a deluge of checkboxes. Anything out of the ordinary can be achieved via a separate manual configuration - and we are always happy to build one for you...
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NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?
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...
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Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference?
I dream of a world where people stop calling a *link balancer* a *load balancer* — because we don't sell link balancers!..
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JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison
You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.org, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new Peer Insights platform...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Loadbalancer.org achieves Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner Status
We're proud to announce that we have achieved Advanced Technology Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading platform for public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service...
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Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison
If you are trying to decide which load balancer product is right for your business, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s a market of two extremes...
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Lost sale lessons
We have been fortunate to serve some of the biggest names in their respective industries because they recognised our best assets...
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15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really
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...