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What the hack! Andrew Zak
Andrew Zak shares first-hand experience of participating in the south coast’s biggest hackathon held at the University of Portsmouth. Hack Pompey is a Portsmouth based social hack event for people from all backgrounds and

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Security
FTPS Implicit vs FTPS Explicit: Who will win? Imannuel Graham
“Load balancing FTP can be loads of fun for system and network administrators alike!” - said nobody ever. Implementation of FTP and configuration of your firewalls can be cumbersome, especially when it comes to being

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Seeing red: Why our color scheme does (and doesn't) matter Roman Humphreys
What’s on the outside does count - at least, when it comes to branding. One study found that ‘up to 90% of snap judgments made about products can be based on color alone’. The

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It all turned out OKI Roman Humphreys
We recently spent the day with engineers from OKI Europe, a leading printer manufacturer. We met OKI at European Congress of Radiology (ECR) (one of the leading radiology events in the industry) earlier this year

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The Queen's award deserves a royal celebration, what's next? Annu Sroa
There was an official presentation ceremony held at our UK office for receiving the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category this week. The accolade is the highest official UK award for

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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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What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer? Malcolm Turnbull
If you Google 'modern load balancer', you will quickly find the awesome blog from Matt Klein — followed by some marketing fluff from AVI Networks and NGINX+. It's really annoying when people believe — that something traditional

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No, it's not a bloody free load balancer — and never will be James Loveday
We exhibited at Cloud Expo Europe a few years ago, promoting the release of our cloud products; ENTERPRISE AWS + ENTERPRISE AZURE. We love trade shows. They provide a platform to meet existing customers, as well

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The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org.... Malcolm Turnbull
I was part of the generation that grew up without computers. We played Cowboys and Indians and dreamed of going into space, or flying planes. When I was about 11 my friends started getting Sinclair

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Loadbalancer.org pricing — how much does it cost? James Loveday
It depends who's asking! OK, that sounds like a dubious answer. So let me be clear from the outset: our pricing is transparent and our perpetual licensing model is fair and straightforward. We don’t

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NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla? Malcolm Turnbull
As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAProxy, it’s in my interests to combat the avalanche of NGINX+ marketing propaganda that I've seen over the last year. Let's call it an attempt to skewer fake news.

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Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference? Oliver Warren
I dream of a world where people stop calling a link balancer a load balancer - because we don't sell link balancers! And I'm sure that the team at Mushroom Networks have the same dream

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Macmillan coffee morning - cake or death?! Annu Sroa
We recently held a coffee morning at Loadbalancer.org HQ to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. To support the charity we were selling coffee and cake throughout the day - and we even had a bake off! I must admit...competition was tough!

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Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets... Mark Brookes
HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!

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Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison Richard Halcrow
If you are trying to decide which load balancer product is right for your business, you’ve probably already discovered that it’s a market of two extremes. There are load balancers with very low

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What is a load balancer? Annu Sroa
If your IT department or IT partner has asked you to sign off budget for a load balancer, you may be wondering what it is. More importantly, you probably want to know why your business

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Lost sale lessons James Loveday
We lost a sale. It happens and it is always difficult to swallow, especially when the reason is seemingly trivial. Were we technically inferior? No. Were we more expensive? Nope. Was our support lacking? Far

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15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer Malcolm Turnbull
OK time for another embarrassing confession, "For the last 15 years Loadbalancer.org has never needed to use a load balancer!" But that all changed when some hacker decided to attack our website.

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Great products don't need to be sold James Loveday
Many people I talk to (my wife included), don’t find technology products particularly sexy. It's a valid opinion, but they are missing the point. They are beautiful not only in their design but the

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Voice Activated Load Balancing? Could it actually work Ben Cabot
We'd heard the marketing team had come up with an idea for an April fools joke of releasing a product called Enterprise VAL, the voice activated load balancer. We liked the idea but thought wouldn't

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Did you fall for our April Fool? Malcolm Turnbull
So we had a fun weekend - and yes we played a little April fool...Well, it started as an April Fool. We've left the original blog below just so you can have a read

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"Business Development" is not a sales pitch — it's a process Daniel Leng
One of the pains in the modern business environment is the overuse of the phrase “Business Development”. In most cases, this simply means a sales guy who is determined to sell you something that you

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Vendor lock-in sucks: How do I leave my cloud software provider? Malcolm Turnbull
As a business owner, I love being able to rent software solutions in the cloud. It's flexible, fast to deploy and evaluate, easy to scale, and there's no large up-front capital investment. But what happens

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Do you remember when you could get fired — for not buying F5? Malcolm Turnbull
You might not be old enough to remember the highly effective marketing campaign from IBM, that implied buying from anyone else would get you fired... However, I just read Kemp Technologies mildly amusing press release

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Loadbalancer.org Support — its not just a career, it's a lifestyle choice Dave Saunders
One of the things we are regularly told at Loadbalancer.org is that our support is "really awesome", "fast, efficient and very professional", "first class" etc. Personally, I don't

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Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016 Jake Borman
Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016. Or at least that's the opinion of the hard working elves down at HAProxy Technologies. Our good friends across the channel very kindly sent us a Christmas

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Loadbalancer.org is the best company to work for! Fact Richard Halcrow
Loadbalancer.org had been nominated for the award "The best company to work for" at the Solent Business Awards. Sadly, we didn't win but we were definitely the best dressed. See the photos

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