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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...
Security
Let's Encrypt — how did we survive without it?
Let’s Encrypt is awesome! Not only is it more secure than your existing certificate authority. It's also reliable, scalable, fully automated — and free!..
AWS / Azure / GCP
FC Barcelona choose Loadbalancer.org in AWS for flexibility and security
With our 9 years expertise in making applications within AWS indestructible, Loadbalancer.org was able to provide FC Barcelona with an intelligent application delivery controller built on 15 years' worth of battle‑hardened software...
Comparisons
Kemp Technologies vs Citrix NetScaler ADC — who cares about the price?
Typically, Citrix NetScaler customers have a few hundred load-balanced clusters, with 3+ Gbps and 10,000+ SSL transactions per second (TPS). Whereas your typical Kemp customer will have 2-5 load balanced clusters with less than 100 Mbps throughput and less than 5 SSL TPS...
Application Management
Monitoring Loadbalancer.org appliances using OmniCenter from Netreo
OmniCenter is a server monitoring, alerting and reporting product which can be deployed to monitor your whole network/infrastructure, providing a single place to view of all systems and alerting you if there are any problems...
Application Management
Nutanix Ready, a great platform now comes with a certified load balancer
We have built upon our existing strengths in virtualized environments to become Nutanix certified, with the addition of support for Nutanix AHV positions...
Events
The Queen's award deserves a royal celebration, what's next?
The awards recognise outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development...
Comparisons
Loadbalancer.org: The IT Central Station community weighs in
One of the top themes that has come up in our users’ reviews is their unparalleled technical support:..
Performance
Load balancing your load balancers for a crazy amount of SSL TPS
The plan is to use an inexpensive pair of load balancers - using Layer 4 DR mode for maximum throughput and transparency - to load balance some more mid to high-end load balancers. This enables us to handle the SSL offload at a much more affordable price than simply buying a big box...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How to design a disaster recovery plan for your cloud infrastructure
To design a well-targeted disaster recovery plan, you need to work out two key metrics: the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)...
HAProxy
What exactly is a 'Modern DevOps' load balancer?
It's really annoying when people believe that something traditional (proven to work) is somehow worse, than something that is modern (looks like a cool idea)...
Open source
Does the new multi-threaded support in HAProxy finally solve the 10G problem?
It’s no big secret that a single processor can only handle so much processing in a given time. So what happens when you reach the limits of what a single processor can handle? Simple, you add more processors...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...
Events
American customer service, German engineering and British values bring royal recognition for Loadbalancer.org
Here at Loadbalancer.org, we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our customers, partners and staff. Coinciding with the opening of our new Californian support office in San Mateo; Loadbalancer.org has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2018, International Trade...
Open source
Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC (aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAProxy)
Load balancing NFS is a real pain; especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos...
Comparisons
No, it's not a bloody free load balancer — and never will be
Several people visiting our stand mentioned the announcement that Kemp Technologies had released a free load balancer. Understandably, they were interested to hear if we would be responding in kind...
Microsoft
Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure
The Loadbalancer.org Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How do you combine AWS Auto Scaling with a proper load balancer?
The Loadbalancer.org appliance automatically detects changes in your auto-scaling groups, with zero configuration and zero downtime...
Direct Server Return
Why Direct Server Return (DSR) is simply awesome
Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent, and super fast...
Application Management
Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...
Comparisons
The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org...
My first piece of code was an animated fish tank (because I wasn't allowed a real one). I soon started dreaming of being a software developer and started learning machine code...
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...!..
Comparisons
Loadbalancer.org pricing — how much does it cost?
Our aim is always to deliver the features you want, without presenting you with a deluge of checkboxes. Anything out of the ordinary can be achieved via a separate manual configuration - and we are always happy to build one for you...
Comparisons
NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?
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...
Security
Load Balancing Apache Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy...