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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.
Aaron West
Load balancing your load balancers for a crazy amount of SSL TPS
The plan is to use an inexpensive pair of load balancers - using Layer 4 DR mode for maximum throughput and transparency - to load balance some more mid to high-end load balancers. This enables us to handle the SSL offload at a much more affordable price than simply buying a big box...
Performance
How-tos
Gilad Maayan
How to design a disaster recovery plan for your cloud infrastructure
To design a well-targeted disaster recovery plan, you need to work out two key metrics: the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Performance
How-tos
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