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Nail multi-site resilience and global uptime with these expert insights. Learn how an intelligent Global Server Load Balancing solution ensures seamless disaster recovery, routes users to the nearest data center, and keeps traffic local to reduce WAN costs.

Blackout Crisis in City at Night

Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it

Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture.

Blackout Crisis in City at Night

AWS / Azure / GCP

Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it

Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture...

Damian Pacuszka

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...

Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications

Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications

DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...

Damian Pacuszka

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world...

Active/active for N+1 redundancy and > 1Tbps of ADC throughput

Active/active for N+1 redundancy and > 1Tbps of ADC throughput

I've been repeatedly asked how our load balancers scale. So, I have decided to write down your options for endlessly scalable, high-performance load balancing...

Joshua Turnbull

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

We do a lot of work with object storage solution providers, and one of the main concerns that they have is throughput...

What's wrong with round-robin DNS?

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...

Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques

Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques

The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..

Active / Active load balancing, do you need it?

Active / Active load balancing, do you need it?

In the load balancing world active/active has multiple meanings. And once you've got that hurdle out the way, you need to then work out whether you actually need it...

Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...

Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers

Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers

Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...

Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it

Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?..

I've finally found a decent reason to use Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)!

I've finally found a decent reason to use Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)!

Yes, it's the end of an era... after many years arguing that GSLB has no place on a proper load balancer, I've finally found a solid reason to add one to our product. Yes, you read that right! I've officially surrendered and given you a new GSLB to play with...!..

GSLB — Why Global Server Load Balancers don’t always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Part 2

GSLB — Why Global Server Load Balancers don’t always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Part 2

In part one we were introduced to Polaris-GSLB which is a cool little open source GSLB solution. In part two of this Blog I’m going to show you how to build Polaris-GSLB on CentOS 7...

GSLB – Why Global Server Load Balancers don't always suck? (Polaris-GSLB)

GSLB – Why Global Server Load Balancers don't always suck? (Polaris-GSLB)

Here at Loadbalancer.org we’re not known for being huge fans of GSLB solutions as some of our customers may already know...

Why does Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) suck?

Why does Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) suck?

OK, Before the flames start let me state the usual caveat, "GSLBs don't ALWAYS suck. Just most of the time"...

Malcolm Turnbull

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