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When is an ACL not an ACL? When it's an HAProxy ACL...
If you're from a network background or are of a certain age (or both!), you will have come across Access Control Lists or ACLs.
Insights from the load balancer experts
HAProxy
Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
How-tos
What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?
Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..
Automation
Solving the Layer 4 ARP problem on Linux with Ansible
The ARP problem for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
Open source
ModSecurity and the Case of the Never Decreasing Variables
In the world of web application security, it can be invaluable to consider a user's behaviour across the entire duration of their web app session...
Performance
Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?..
Open source
NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)
The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...
High Availability
Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies
Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers...
Print
Why zero downtime for print management is critical
A properly load balanced print management solution can ensure zero downtime, resilience, a simplified infrastructure, easy maintenance and optimal performance...
WAF
How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..
Storage
Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system
Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture...
Application Management
How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service
A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...
Storage
NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?
While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...
Comparisons
Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms
In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...
Comparisons
What's the best 10G switch upgrade path — 40G or 25G?
The explosion of information in our everyday lives has driven the technology market to create newer, faster technologies to cater for the storage and access to the data created...
HAProxy
Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy
We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...
Microsoft
Making a leading charity’s email system secure, accessible and reliable
Our expertise enabled a leading charity utilise their Microsoft Exchange email system making it easily accessible, secure, scalable and reliable...
Application Management
DC (direct current) powered application delivery: an energy-saving game changer for the data center industry?
The AC versus DC debate is ongoing. Find out which power supply works best when it comes to the modern day data center – and why...
Events
Keeping businesses flowing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Whether your organization is starting a slow return to normality or still working within enforced restrictions – we’re as committed as ever to keeping your business flowing during this period of uncertainty...
Healthcare
How load balancers optimize PACS performance in radiology
One of the most clinically-significant healthcare innovations of the last few decades, PACS has changed the architecture of the modern radiology department for good...
WAF
Secure connections: encrypt, inspect and decrypt traffic when using a WAF
We’re often asked how to configure our load balancer to protect both web servers and users...
Open source
How to tackle bugs and vulnerabilities – a solutions architect’s opinion
Dealing with bugs and vulnerabilities is quite common in the tech space. Aaron West, the head of Solutions at Loadbalancer.org shares some insights about our approach of tackling such issues, and more...
Comparisons
Migrate your load balancer to virtual or cloud for FREE – our new license
If you think migrating your load balancers to virtual or cloud would cost you big bucks, we've got some good news. Our Freedom License offers customers seamless migration – absolutely free!..
Print
Load balancing PaperCut Version 20
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities...
How-tos
How to YAML your load balancer deployment
With this, we now have the YAML interface and a method to post the contents!..
Security
Healthcare IT should listen to Amazon's Werner Vogels: “Dance Like Nobody’s Watching. Encrypt Like Everyone Is”
Find out why Werner Vogels' comments ring especially true for healthcare data...
Comparisons
Why choosing a load balancer with no end-of-life (EOL) is important
So many companies enforce end-of-life (EOL) on their products, but our customers are free to choose when to upgrade their appliances. Unlike our competitors, we don’t EOL our products...
Performance
Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…
Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...