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Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price? Annu Sroa

F5 Networks is still clearly the leader in the application delivery market. But it's always worth considering other options, and the obvious alternative to F5 is Citrix. A blog comparing Citrix and F5 would be

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Loadbalancer.org: The IT Central Station community weighs in Danielle Felder

Over the last few months, the team at IT Central Station reached out to Loadbalancer.org customers with one goal: to find out what they really thought about their experiences with Loadbalancer.org.

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9 May 2018

Reading is believing: Can you trust customer reviews? Andrew Zak

If you've ever bought anything online, you've more than likely gone searching for reviews about a business. Based on your findings, it's likely to have heavily influenced whether you followed through with your purchase. However, should you trust a collection of random strangers thoughts

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15 Dec 2017

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

HAProxy

22 Nov 2017

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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11 Oct 2017

JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison Malcolm Turnbull

You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.org, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new PeerInsights platform.

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26 Jun 2017

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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23 May 2017

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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26 Jan 2017

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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7 Jul 2016

Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant? Aaron West

Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But please don’t be surprised when we charge you a fairly large amount

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17 Sep 2015

How should you compare load balancers? Malcolm Turnbull

If you are searching on Google for load balancer comparisons, as I just did, you will come across some blatant sales pitches from various vendors. They use dubious figures to prove that they are better

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19 Aug 2015

What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms? Malcolm Turnbull

This kind of question was asked a lot more frequently ten years ago, usually followed by the second most common question: "Why do I need two load balancers?" In fact, we were asked

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28 Nov 2013

10 reasons NOT to choose Loadbalancer.org... Jake Borman

After the success of my previous ramblings, 10 reasons to choose Loadbalancer.org..., I thought it only fair that I take a few moments to highlight the reasons why you shouldn't be using Loadbalancer.org.

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20 Sep 2013

10 reasons to choose Loadbalancer.org... Jake Borman

Anyone who knows Loadbalancer.org knows we're a truly unique company, free from corporate constraints and wholly focused on more than just customer service excellence. Our main problem is communicating this message to the unfortunate

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