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How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts.
Insights from the load balancer experts
Storage
Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster
Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...
GSLB
Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications
DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...
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...
Storage
How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data
There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data ...
Automation
How to automate load balancer deployments (API / CLI / JSON / SOAP / PowerShell)
For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair...
Open source
How to load balance VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with HAProxy
Want to configure a load balancer for VMware's AirWatch Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG)? Let's help you out...
Security
Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020)
A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers...
Media
Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?..
Events
Talking free and open-source at FOSDEM 2020
Peter Statham talks about how it was to be a part of the 20th edition of FOSDEM - Europe's biggest free and open-source event!..
Healthcare
Load balancing: the backbone of seamless healthcare interoperability
Just like you and I, healthcare systems now talk to each other. Your data can be shared and accessed by all the stakeholders involved in the process of your treatment. To know more, read our blog on healthcare interoperability...
AWS / Azure / GCP
AWS reservations, savings plans, and spot instances explained
I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans"...
How-tos
Security through geography: blocking traffic by country, continent, or IP address using ModSecurity
Imagine you’re running a business and you often see malicious-looking web traffic from the other side of the globe hitting your website...
Events
What the hack!
Hack Pompey is a Portsmouth based social hack event for people from all backgrounds and disciplines to come together, collaborate and build something awesome...
How-tos
Smart, secure encryption with SNI
In the early days of the Internet, there was very little encrypted traffic. People simply trusted that nobody was out to get them. But later on, security and encryption became an important part of online life...