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Loadbalancer.org Enterprise: A technical guide to Layer 7 Manual Configuration
For times when you need to dive deeper and implement advanced settings that aren't directly available through the standard interface.
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
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...