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Microsoft Exchange
Load balancing Exchange 2019 Neil Hosking
How does load balancing Exchange 2019 differ from load balancing previous versions of Microsoft's mailbox server? We've assembled everything you need to know.

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How to install and configure HAProxy on RHEL 7 Andrei Grigoras
Follow our clear instructions if you want to use HAProxy with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization Richard Halcrow
Outages result in more than just lost revenue for your organization – but how best to quantify the damage?

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How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF) Aaron West
Training a WAF can be difficult - but not impossible. Find out how we recommend doing it, and how our tools make the whole process easier.

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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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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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Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF Neil Stone
Protect both web servers and users, with this combination of layers and tools.

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Load balancing PaperCut Version 20 Imannuel Graham
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities - find out how to get the most out of your PaperCut print environment.

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How to YAML your load balancer deployment Andrew Smalley
Code for a new API interface to take YAML and post it to an LBCLI command.

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How to automate load balancer deployments (API / CLI / JSON / SOAP / PowerShell) Andrew Smalley
Learn how to automate your load balancer deployments if you're running version 8.4.1 or higher.

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How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out.

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Top tips for zero downtime when you work from home Himakshi Goswami
With work-from-home becoming the new reality, employees across organizations look for useful techniques to do it the right way. From setting up your own home office to staying productive, we bring you the top tips to manage it like a pro!

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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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Security through geography: blocking traffic by country, continent, or IP address using ModSecurity Andrew Howe
Malicious-looking web traffic from the other side of the globe is hitting your site. One solution is to block traffic originating in the offending country, assuming you don’t have customers there. With our WAF it’s possible to block inbound traffic by location adding an extra layer of security...

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Smart, secure encryption with SNI Neil Stone
As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...

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Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check Imannuel Graham
Over the past year I've written a few blogs about load balancing print servers and print managed solutions. If you haven’t already deployed print servers in HA, please don't fret. It is a relatively

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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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Choosing the best load balancer for AWS Neil Hosking
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

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

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Load Balancing Exchange 2016 Neil Hosking
Exchange 2016 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation. This has greatly simplified both the deployment process and the implementation

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How to write an external health check script for HAProxy Andrew Smalley
There's a saying you've probably heard: "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Health checks are

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Printing without pain: How to scale print environments and avoid downtime Imannuel Graham
Print environments often bring together multiple technologies and applications, which can present challenges. There’s the issue of planned downtime: end-users may need to make manual changes to their network when print services fail, taking servers out of production for maintenance or updates...

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Can you load balance multiple applications at the same time? Oliver Warren
We seem to get this question quite frequently. So instead of giving the answer to everyone whenever we're asked, we thought it'd be best to write a blog about it. The short answer is yes.

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Monitoring Loadbalancer.org appliances using OmniCenter from Netreo Oliver Warren
Recently at Loadbalancer.org, we have been looking at monitoring software to pair with our load balancer appliance. We came across a company called Netreo who make the OmniCenter product. This is going to be

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Load balancing your load balancers for endless scalability Aaron West
As the title suggests, I'm going to take a look at the concept of load balancing a cluster of inexpensive load balancers to scale out SSL capabilities (or even Layer 7 operations), rather than the

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How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy Thorsten Wetzig
What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client. Using the Cloudflare

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