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Direct Server Return

Why Direct Server Return (DSR) is simply awesome

Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent, and super fast...
Application Management

Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure

In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...
Events

The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org...

My first piece of code was an animated fish tank (because I wasn't allowed a real one). I soon started dreaming of being a software developer and started learning machine code...
Comparisons

Loadbalancer.org pricing — how much does it cost?

Our aim is always to deliver the features you want, without presenting you with a deluge of checkboxes. Anything out of the ordinary can be achieved via a separate manual configuration - and we are always happy to build one for you...
Comparisons

NGINX vs HAProxy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?

As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAProxy, it’s in my interests to combat the avalanche of NGINX+ marketing propaganda that I've seen over the last year. Let's call it an attempt to skewer fake news...
High Availability

Load balancing Nutanix: Choosing an enterprise load balancer

Nutanix offers a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that integrates virtualization, computing, networking, storage, and security resources into a single system...
Events

IP EXPO Europe 2017 competition winner announced!

I would like to say thank you to all of those that visited us at our stand during the 2 days we were there - we hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!..
Direct Server Return

Yahoo’s L3 Direct Server Return (DSR), an alternative to LVS-TUN, explored

L3 DSR is an alternative technique to achieve direct server return at Layer 3. Instead of using an IPIP tunnel like LVS-TUN it changes the destination IP address like LVS-NAT when sending the traffic to the real server...
Comparisons

JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison

You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.org, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new Peer Insights platform...