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Application Management
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
Thank you to all who visited us at IP EXPO Manchester 2016
Jake Borman
Former Operations Director
This was Loadbalancer.org's first time exhibiting at the Manchester version of IP EXPO. After many years attending the London event, we can safely confirm that the Northerners are a much more chatty bunch...
Integrating your load balancer with auto scaling groups in EC2 (Amazon AWS)
Ben Cabot
Former Lead Cloud Developer
The Loadbalancer.org for AWS appliance will monitor auto scaling groups, update configs based on auto scaling events and add/remove servers...
Exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe 2016
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
We met lots of people and gave away a lot of lanyards...in fact the show organizers ran out of lanyards, so Loadbalancer.org were happy to fill the void...
How to stop TPROXY when used with HAProxy breaking clients in the real server subnet
Aaron West
Former Head of Solutions Architecture
Once HAProxy is running transparently, it will allow the real server to see the client IP so the real server will reply directly back to the client bypassing the load balancer...
Load balancing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services in AWS
Rob Cooper
Lead Technical Author/Architect
Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements...
Supporting two default gateways on your load balancer with PBR (Policy Based Routing)
Aaron West
Former Head of Solutions Architecture
Policy Based Routing is a clever way to give us more control over which routing path connections will take. It allows us to specify custom routing tables and then add rules offering fine grained control over which routing table a connection will use...
Loadbalancer.org buys new head office building in Portsmouth
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
We thought it was about time we bought our very own office building!..
New PuTTY vulnerability "vuln-ech-overflow" identified - upgrade to 0.66 to protect your environment
Dave Saunders
Head of Client Engineering
Due to the way that PuTTY uses a signed integer variable to store the number of characters to be erased and there was inadequate checking for overflow, there was the potential for an attacker to corrupt important data in certain circumstances...
IP EXPO Europe 2015 - Thank you to everyone who visited our stand
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at IP Expo 2015...
Blocking invalid range headers using ModSecurity and/or HAProxy (MS15-034 - CVE-2015-1635)
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Anomaly score based blocking is more flexible and effective than simple first error blocking...
Transparent Load balancing with HAProxy on Amazon EC2
Ben Cabot
Former Lead Cloud Developer
One of our favorite methods of load balancing is using Layer 4 DR because it is transparent and fast. Unfortunately, because of Amazon's infrastructure, this is not possible in EC2 so we need to use another method which means we are left with layer 4 NAT and transparent HAproxy using TProxy...
Simple Denial of Service DOS attack mitigation using HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks can be used to degrade or cripple the functionality of a site...