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Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture.
Insights from the load balancer experts
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
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...
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
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...
How-tos
How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations
SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...
HAProxy
Transparent proxy of SSL traffic using Pound to HAProxy backend patch and how-to
I've previously blogged about how to get TPROXY and HAProxy working nicely together, but what if you want to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to use HAProxy to insert cookies in the standard HTTP stream to the backend servers?..
High Availability
Loadbalancer.org guarantee 99.999% (5 nines) up-time to all of our customers.
Some vendors make a fair bit of hype about their products enabling 99.999% availability out of the box...
HAProxy
Configure HAProxy with TPROXY kernel for full transparent proxy
If you use HAProxy as the load balancer then all of the backend servers see the traffic coming from the IP address of the load balancer...
How-tos
LVS Local node patch for Linux 2.6.25, Centos 5 kernel build how-to
Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node...
Direct Server Return
Load balancing via Direct Routing has several key advantages over NAT based methods
One of the (many) traditional problems with load balancing is the requirement to change your infrastructure in order to implement a hardware load balancer...
Direct Server Return
Direct Routing aka. Direct Server Return — How to solve the ARP problem on Windows Server 2022
Direct Routing aka. Direct Server Return (DSR) aka. N-Path is a great load balancing method. And it is, without doubt, the fastest method possible...
Performance
Why Layer 7 load balancing sucks...
Hardware marketing execs get very excited about the fact that their product can magically scale your application by using ‘amazing Layer 7 technology’ in the load balancer such as cookie inserts and tracking/re-writing...