Latest The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world.
GSLB I've finally found a decent reason to use Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)! Yes, it's the end of an era... after many years arguing that GSLB has no place on a proper load balancer, I've finally found a solid reason to add one to our product. Yes, you read that right! I've officially surrendered and given you a new GSLB to play with...!..
Direct Server Return 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 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...
Performance Voice Activated Load Balancing? Could it actually work We decided that we would like to be able to change server states and bring them online, offline or drain them. So asking Alexa to do this would look like “Alexa ask Val to change status of website1 to drain”. So we started work with this as our goal...
Performance What do you mean my pipe is saturated? Some of the most common questions we get at Loadbalancer.org are performance related. It is quite difficult to give a straight answer to these questions as the real answer is often slightly unsatisfactory...
Performance Look, why can't you just tell me how many people are connected to the load balancer? 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...
Performance G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!..
Performance EC2 load balancer appliance rocks, and its FREE... for now anyway. I’m excited and slightly scared by our latest product! Excited because I've become slightly addicted to launching multiple instances in different parts of the world and load balancing the traffic seamlessly. Scared because this could change our whole business model...
Direct Server Return Load balancing via Direct Routing has several key advantages over NAT based methods One of the (many) traditional problems with load balancing is the requirement to change your infrastructure in order to implement a hardware load balancer...
Performance Why Layer 7 load balancing sucks... Hardware marketing execs get very excited about the fact that their product can magically scale your application by using ‘amazing Layer 7 technology’ in the load balancer such as cookie inserts and tracking/re-writing...