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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...
High Availability
Load balancing Nutanix: Choosing an enterprise load balancer
Nutanix offers a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that integrates virtualization, computing, networking, storage, and security resources into a single system...
Comparisons
Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference?
I dream of a world where people stop calling a *link balancer* a *load balancer* — because we don't sell link balancers!..
Events
IP EXPO Europe 2017 competition winner announced!
I would like to say thank you to all of those that visited us at our stand during the 2 days we were there - we hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!..
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...
Comparisons
JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison
You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.org, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new Peer Insights platform...
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...
Automation
How to automate legacy load balancer deployments
Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...
Events
Macmillan coffee morning - cake or death?!
We recently held a coffee morning at Loadbalancer.org HQ to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. To support the charity we were selling coffee and cake throughout the day - and we even had a bake off! I must admit...competition was tough!..
HAProxy
Breaking HAProxy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...
HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!..
Security
Security through obscurity - double login protection made easy...
Security through obscurity is not a great idea when it is your ONLY protection technique. For example moving your SSH port from 22 -> 23 won't fool any hackers for long! However, I've always liked putting a 'double login' in front of important web sites to frustrate simple automated hacking tools...
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...