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How can I load balance UDP with open source HAProxy?
UDP is a connectionless protocol, meaning it doesn't establish a formal connection or 'handshake' before sending data...
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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.
Thorsten Wetzig
How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy
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...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Security
High Availability
Tom Kacperski
Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC (aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAProxy)
Load balancing NFS is a real pain; especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos...
Open source
High Availability
HAProxy
Ben Cabot
Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure
The Loadbalancer.org Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution...
Microsoft
Application Management
AWS / Azure / GCP
Imannuel Graham
How do you combine AWS Auto Scaling with a proper load balancer?
The Loadbalancer.org appliance automatically detects changes in your auto-scaling groups, with zero configuration and zero downtime...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Performance
Jake Borman
Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...
Application Management
WAF
AWS / Azure / GCP
Roman Humphreys
Load Balancing Apache Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy...
Security
Microsoft
WAF
Aaron West
Load balancing Nutanix: Choosing an enterprise load balancer
Nutanix offers a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that integrates virtualization, computing, networking, storage, and security resources into a single system...
High Availability
How-tos
Aaron West
Yahoo’s L3 Direct Server Return (DSR), an alternative to LVS-TUN, explored
L3 DSR is an alternative technique to achieve direct server return at Layer 3. Instead of using an IPIP tunnel like LVS-TUN it changes the destination IP address like LVS-NAT when sending the traffic to the real server...
Direct Server Return
How-tos
Performance
Malcolm Turnbull
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...
Comparisons
How-tos
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
Aaron West
Layer 4 Direct Routing (LVS-DR) and Layer 4 TUN (LVS-TUN) in AWS
LVS-DR and LVS-TUN are both forms of Direct Server Return where the load balancer only has to deal with one half of the connection...
Direct Server Return
Performance
How-tos
Andrew Smalley
How to automate legacy load balancer deployments
Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...
Automation
How-tos
Integrations
Malcolm Turnbull
Security through obscurity - double login protection made easy...
Security through obscurity is not a great idea when it is your ONLY protection technique. For example moving your SSH port from 22 -> 23 won't fool any hackers for long! However, I've always liked putting a 'double login' in front of important web sites to frustrate simple automated hacking tools...
Security
How-tos
WAF