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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
Loadbalancer.org guarantee 99.999% (5 nines) uptime to all of our customers
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Some vendors make a fair bit of hype about their products enabling 99.999% availability out of the box...
Configure HAProxy with TPROXY kernel for full transparent proxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
If you use HAProxy as the load balancer then all of the backend servers see the traffic coming from the IP address of the load balancer...
LVS Local node patch for Linux 2.6.25, Centos 5 kernel build how-to
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node...
Load balancing via Direct Routing has several key advantages over NAT based methods
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
One of the (many) traditional problems with load balancing is the requirement to change your infrastructure in order to implement a hardware load balancer...
Direct Routing aka. Direct Server Return — How to solve the ARP problem on Windows Server 2022
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Direct Routing aka. Direct Server Return (DSR) aka. N-Path is a great load balancing method. And it is, without doubt, the fastest method possible...
Why Layer 7 load balancing sucks...
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Hardware marketing execs get very excited about the fact that their product can magically scale your application by using ‘amazing Layer 7 technology’ in the load balancer such as cookie inserts and tracking/re-writing...