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Automation

How to automate legacy load balancer deployments

Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...
Events

Macmillan coffee morning - cake or death?!

We recently held a coffee morning at Loadbalancer.org HQ to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. To support the charity we were selling coffee and cake throughout the day - and we even had a bake off! I must admit...competition was tough!..
Security

Security through obscurity - double login protection made easy...

Security through obscurity is not a great idea when it is your ONLY protection technique. For example moving your SSH port from 22 -> 23 won't fool any hackers for long! However, I've always liked putting a 'double login' in front of important web sites to frustrate simple automated hacking tools...
Application Management

How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy

Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy...
How-tos

Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy: How to configure

Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate...
Events

Visit us on stand E9 at IP EXPO Europe (and WIN!)

Pop by stand E9 for a coffee (or beer!) and a chat with one of our experts or if you would like to arrange a specific time to meet just ping us an email...