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How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal
As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts.
Insights from the load balancer experts
HAProxy
How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...
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...
Comparisons
Load balancer migration: The F5 alternative turning heads
If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone...
Application Management
How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy
Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy...
Healthcare
Load balancing diagnostic medical imaging — Strengthening the radiology workflow
An efficient, resilient radiology workflow is crucial to delivering the best patient care. A complex and ever-changing environment, often with resource constraints, requires a considered approach...
How-tos
Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy: How to configure
Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Loadbalancer.org achieves Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner Status
We're proud to announce that we have achieved Advanced Technology Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading platform for public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service...
Healthcare
How to configure a DICOM ECHO health check for medical imaging systems
We thought it was important to have a specific health check built into our appliance for the commonly used DICOM protocol (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)...
WAF
Load Balancing Nginx Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
SSL offload is handled by STunnel, while HAProxy handles back-end server re-encryption...
Events
Visit us on stand E9 at IP EXPO Europe (and WIN!)
Pop by stand E9 for a coffee (or beer!) and a chat with one of our experts or if you would like to arrange a specific time to meet just ping us an email...
Security
How to stop web form spam — use a simple honey pot trap in ModSecurity...
How frustrating do you find it when hackers or robots fill in your website forms with "Buy Viagra Now!" type spam?..
Comparisons
Kemp Technologies vs F5 — a refreshingly honest load balancer comparison
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...
Security
Stack Clash and Loadbalancer.org
The long and short of it is, there are updates to the Linux kernel and glibc packages which will 'fix' the issue..
How-tos
Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use?
Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs. Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some awkward conversations with customers that chose the wrong method...
Comparisons
Lost sale lessons
We have been fortunate to serve some of the biggest names in their respective industries because they recognised our best assets...
Comparisons
15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really
If you want to test your site against this kind of attack, slow attacks like this are quite inexpensive for attackers to launch, and they don't need control of many remote hosts in order to launch an effective attack...
Education
Leading European research university maintains top-class website with Loadbalancer.org
“Now if one of our servers was to go down, we wouldn’t worry too much because we know that with Loadbalancer.org’s Enterprise MAX Clustered Pair in place it’s not really going to be much of a problem,” says Braam...
What exactly is a reverse proxy? Reverse proxy v forward proxy
Technically, the only mode on a load balancer that is a real Reverse Proxy is Layer 7 mode. Whereas all Layer 4 load balancing modes such as NAT, DR and TUN are nothing like a reverse proxy. The clients are effectively talking directly (transparently) to the backend servers...
Comparisons
Great products don't need to be sold
Simply reeling off a list of product benefits doesn’t cut it...
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...
Events
April Fool antics
After the recent introduction of Enterprise Ultra to our hardware family, plus the recent software update 8.2.4. We are pleased to finally announce our new Voice Activated Load Balancer - Enterprise VAL...
AWS / Azure / GCP
IAM what I am
For several years, if an instance was launched in AWS and during the initial configuration an IAM role was not defined, the only option available was to stop/terminate the instance and launch another, however, this has now changed!..
Healthcare
DelftDI recommends Loadbalancer.org for load balancing critical medical imaging systems
The stability of the Loadbalancer.org products enables DelftDI to ensure the high availability of its medical imaging solutions...
How-tos
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise VA with oVirt(RHEV) 4.1
The appliance works quite nicely in a oVirt environment and should work just as well with a full Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization environment (RHEV)!..
Microsoft
MS SQL Health Check
Follow the instructions below to install and configure the external health check, and once you've completed the steps you can use the health check for either layer 4 (LVS) or layer 7 (HAproxy) clusters...
Comparisons
Do you remember when you could get fired — for not buying F5?
A pair of F5s is a great solution, but mainly if you need to run a crazy number of applications and servers through a single device. In that case, you definitely need an expensive, complicated, over-specified and over-engineered single point of failure...
HAProxy
Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016
HAProxy Technologies' ALOHA Pocket is a full-featured ALOHA Load Balancer running on a light USB-powered hardware that easily fits in a pocket, meaning it's possible to carry it everywhere to run tests and demos...