Insights from the load balancer experts

Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!..

It is understandable that SysAdmins, DevOps, and most in the IT and Security Departments involved want to ensure all load balancers are fully patched and protected, given that our product plays an important role in their topology...

The only real reason for separate network ports is physical redundancy. Because the other primary reason (security segregation) can be easily implemented using VLANs...

At Loadbalancer.org, our heroes are open source. And for good reason. Open source software plays an intrinsic part in our company, products, and services...

Customers with manually configured, custom client authentication deployments (rare) or using “re-encrypt to backend” to communicate with untrusted third-party servers (very rare) may be impacted...

As you know, we get excited about solutions, not semantics, so I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'Application Acceleration' is one of those buzzwords that's about as useful as all that designer water that's out there these days...

Many things in tech are over-complicated for no reason, and iRules are a prime example of that...

The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies...

For the uninitiated, layer 4 DR mode is a high performance load balancing method available on our appliances. It works by having all response traffic flow from the servers straight back to the clients...

Load balancers are built to help scale up your back end servers, to allow for the growth of users. But what if the load balancer could also grow with you?..

We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair...

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found on polkit's pkexec utility. It is a critical vulnerability because it gives full root privileges to any local user or attacker...