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Security

Stack Clash and Loadbalancer.org

The long and short of it is, there are updates to the Linux kernel and glibc packages which will 'fix' the issue..
How-tos

Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use?

Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs. Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some awkward conversations with customers that chose the wrong method...
Comparisons

Lost sale lessons

We have been fortunate to serve some of the biggest names in their respective industries because they recognised our best assets...
Comparisons

15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really

If you want to test your site against this kind of attack, slow attacks like this are quite inexpensive for attackers to launch, and they don't need control of many remote hosts in order to launch an effective attack...
Layer 7

What exactly is a reverse proxy? Reverse proxy v forward proxy

Technically, the only mode on a load balancer that is a real Reverse Proxy is Layer 7 mode. Whereas all Layer 4 load balancing modes such as NAT, DR and TUN are nothing like a reverse proxy. The clients are effectively talking directly (transparently) to the backend servers...
Performance

Voice Activated Load Balancing? Could it actually work

We decided that we would like to be able to change server states and bring them online, offline or drain them. So asking Alexa to do this would look like “Alexa ask Val to change status of website1 to drain”. So we started work with this as our goal...
Events

April Fool antics

After the recent introduction of Enterprise Ultra to our hardware family, plus the recent software update 8.2.4. We are pleased to finally announce our new Voice Activated Load Balancer - Enterprise VAL...
AWS / Azure / GCP

IAM what I am

For several years, if an instance was launched in AWS and during the initial configuration an IAM role was not defined, the only option available was to stop/terminate the instance and launch another, however, this has now changed!..