Find step-by-step technical guides and tutorials for load balancer configuration. Learn how to master Layer 4, 7 and GSLB, automate deployments with our API/CLI, and configure advanced features like SSL termination, health checks, and HA clustering.
The ideal way to monitor the health of the real servers is to to have a dedicated monitoring system in place such as Nagios. However this isn’t always an option, so for some they require the loadbalancer to send an alert...
In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster. However, with some applications, you might get very high load from just a few users doing heavy work, which can compromise performance...
I must confess, at certain times it has looked like open warfare would break out between the support team and development team at Loadbalancer.org over the last few months...
As of haproxy-1.6-dev1 it is now possible to send email alerts directly from HAProxy thanks to the excellent work done for us by Simon Horman...
Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy...
This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software...
Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..
The BEAST attack is a practical attack based on a protocol vulnerability and mainly affects the client side...
Microsoft Print Server provides a great way to share printers throughout your organisation, but when the print server falls over, the phone quickly starts to ring...
This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!..
There’s been a lot of debate here in the office about how best to capture both your Loadbalancer’s IP and the Source IP of the user in your access_log in Apache 2.4. This is the tried and tested method we've come up with...
Although it's not technically a standard, the X-Forwarded-For (XFF) header is incredibly useful if you have any kind of proxy in front of your web servers...
