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Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Why use Professional Services?
Daniel Tighe
Former Solutions Engineer
Why on earth would I want to use Professional Services when I can use Support instead? Here we outline the differences and when you'd want to engage them...
How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAProxy
Andrei Grigoras
Technical Consultant & Support Engineer Team Lead
Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable...
Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Rob Cooper
Lead Technical Author/Architect
Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...
How to achieve client source IP transparency with your load balancer
Oliver Warren
Former Solutions Engineer
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case...
HELP! I’ve Deleted My SSH Keys!
Daniel Tighe
Former Solutions Engineer
We all have the ability to absent-mindedly break installations with a single click. Here I will show you how not only to break your SSH keys, but also how to restore them in the event you end up doing the same thing as me!..
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
Oliver Warren
Former Solutions Engineer
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
How and when to update your load balancer
Oliver Warren
Former Solutions Engineer
A quick guide from our Solutions Engineer, Oliver Warren, outlining when, why and how to update your hardware, virtual and cloud Loadbalancer.org appliances...
Uptime in education: resilient applications in schools, colleges and universities
Harrison Rockensuss
Former Sales Manager
Here our Education Specialist at Loadbalancer.org, Harrison Rockensuss, looks at the fallout from Covid-19 and the ongoing need to embrace new digital ways of working...
Are the Microsoft apps you depend on dependable enough?! Load balancing for seamless service delivery
Rob Cooper
Lead Technical Author/Architect
Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable...
Announcing CVE-2021-35368: OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Bypass
Andrew Howe
Former Technical Author/Architect
In early June 2021, I identified a request body bypass vulnerability in the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS). Loadbalancer.org appliances themselves are unaffected...
How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…..
Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Controversial advice for anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer...