Insights from the load balancer experts

Let me first say that I'm not really a fan of PCI scanners. It's not so much that I'm anti security scanners but rather that scanning for vulnerabilities based on only the version number a package returns seems rather simplistic to me...

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...

The ideal way to monitor the health of the real servers is to to have a dedicated monitoring system in place such as Nagios. However this isn’t always an option, so for some they require the loadbalancer to send an alert...

In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster. However, with some applications, you might get very high load from just a few users doing heavy work, which can compromise performance...

Some of the most common questions we get at Loadbalancer.org are performance related. It is quite difficult to give a straight answer to these questions as the real answer is often slightly unsatisfactory...

I must confess, at certain times it has looked like open warfare would break out between the support team and development team at Loadbalancer.org over the last few months...

We are pretty sure Microsoft have quietly fixed this bug and not told anyone... But the story is quite fun so lets leave it here for a lesson in corporate stupidity..

In Exchange Server 2013, there are two basic building blocks – the Client Access Array and the Database Availability Group (DAG)...

As of haproxy-1.6-dev1 it is now possible to send email alerts directly from HAProxy thanks to the excellent work done for us by Simon Horman...

Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy...

This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software...

Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..