Insights from the load balancer experts

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

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!..

Dave Saunders

• 3 mins

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...

Jake Borman

• 3 mins

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)!..

Aaron West

• 3 mins

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...

Neil Hosking

• 4 mins

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

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...

Jake Borman

• 1 min

How-tos

Loadbalancer.org with Let's Encrypt - quick and dirty!

Let’s Encrypt offers us a free way to get SSL certificates with the aim of being less complex than other current solutions...

Aaron West

• 7 mins

GSLB

GSLB — Why Global Server Load Balancers don’t always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Part 2

In part one we were introduced to Polaris-GSLB which is a cool little open source GSLB solution. In part two of this Blog I’m going to show you how to build Polaris-GSLB on CentOS 7...

Aaron West

• 3 mins

GSLB

GSLB – Why Global Server Load Balancers don't always suck? (Polaris-GSLB)

Here at Loadbalancer.org we’re not known for being huge fans of GSLB solutions as some of our customers may already know...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

Events

IP EXPO Europe 2016

We engaged in some great conversations with people over the two days. This is why we love IP EXPO - talking through the problems customers are experiencing today...

Richard Halcrow

• 2 mins

Security

Blocking Japan with ModSecurity and Maxmind Lite

The Web Application Firewall is based on ModSecurity which is an open source WAF for Apache, IIS, and Nginx for protecting against a many variety of attacks and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and logging...

Theo Garvey

• 2 mins

Open source

Transparent HAProxy in Azure using TProxy

HAProxy is an excellent choice if you need layer 7 functionality, but its a full reverse-proxy, so the application thinks that all of the traffic is coming from HAProxys IP - rather than the clients...

Ben Cabot

• 3 mins

Healthcare

I didn't realise NTP was so important for medical imaging systems like PACS and VNA

We can write custom health checks specific to your environment checking availability of servers as well as other backend systems such as REST servers, databases and storage...

Aaron West

• 3 mins

High Availability

Disaster recovery is more important than HTTPS SNI support...

SNI is an extension to the TLS protocol which enables the client to broadcast its hostname when it tries to connect to your server. This allows you to use multiple SSL certificates on a single IP...

Andrei Grigoras

• 2 mins

Events

Thank you to all who visited us at IP EXPO Manchester 2016

This was Loadbalancer.org's first time exhibiting at the Manchester version of IP EXPO. After many years attending the London event, we can safely confirm that the Northerners are a much more chatty bunch...

Jake Borman

• 2 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

Integrating your load balancer with auto scaling groups in EC2 (Amazon AWS)

The Loadbalancer.org for AWS appliance will monitor auto scaling groups, update configs based on auto scaling events and add/remove servers...

Ben Cabot

• 3 mins

Events

Exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe 2016

We met lots of people and gave away a lot of lanyards...in fact the show organizers ran out of lanyards, so Loadbalancer.org were happy to fill the void...

Richard Halcrow

• 2 mins

Open source

How to stop TPROXY when used with HAProxy breaking clients in the real server subnet

Once HAProxy is running transparently, it will allow the real server to see the client IP so the real server will reply directly back to the client bypassing the load balancer...

Aaron West

• 3 mins

Application Management

Load balancing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services in AWS

Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements...

Rob Cooper

• 2 mins

How-tos

Supporting two default gateways on your Load balancer with PBR (Policy Based Routing)

Policy Based Routing is a clever way to give us more control over which routing path connections will take. It allows us to specify custom routing tables and then add rules offering fine grained control over which routing table a connection will use...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

Events

Loadbalancer.org buys new head office building in Portsmouth

Loadbalancer.org is 13 years old, and we thought it was about time we bought our very own office building! Anyone who has visited our current UK office at the Technopole Portsmouth, will understand..

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

Security

New PuTTY vulnerability "vuln-ech-overflow" identified - upgrade to 0.66 to protect your environment

Due to the way that PuTTY uses a signed integer variable to store the number of characters to be erased and there was inadequate checking for overflow, there was the potential for an attacker to corrupt important data in certain circumstances...

Dave Saunders

• 1 min

Events

IP EXPO Europe 2015 - Thank you to everyone who visited our stand

Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at IP Expo 2015...

Richard Halcrow

• 2 mins