Insights from the load balancer experts

Security

What does HTTPS mean? A beginner's guide

TLS/SSL encryption of your HTTPS data brings a number of significant benefits, leading to a trusted user experience...

Greg Ashwell

• 5 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

The pitfalls of backing up and restoring a Citrix NetScaler, and how to overcome them

Citrix NetScaler is a great product, with great features. The flip side of this, however, is that its complexity means it can require specialist skills to successfully deploy and maintain...

Mick Hilhorst

• 6 mins

F5 / Citrix / Kemp

How to update a Citrix NetScaler, and problems to watch out for

Maintenance, features, or a CVE are all good reasons to upgrade your NetScaler appliance. However, as with any complex task undertaken for the first time, it can get a little confusing...

Mick Hilhorst

• 9 mins

HAProxy

HAProxy reverse proxy: the what, when, and how

Perplexed by proxy?! Ruffled by reverse proxy?! We’ve all been there. Honestly, sometimes I think the language we use makes things sound way more complicated than they actually are...

Andrei Grigoras

• 4 mins

Security

Why you don't need to worry about the novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack (CVE-2023-44487)

We've had a few concerned customers asking about the Google disclosure of the recent huge DDoS attack, and the potential underlying vulnerability in some HTTP/2 servers...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 2 mins

How-tos

How to master SSL termination in HAProxy: considerations and configurations

SSL/TLS termination is the most regularly implemented kind of SSL/TLS offload...

Joe Robinson

• 7 mins

A Loadbalancer, object storage, and Veeam partner alliance for superior data protection

Data protection is focused on making sure that data remains available and immutable — even after a cybersecurity attack, or system failure. This prevents data loss and facilitates data recovery...

Joshua Turnbull

• 4 mins

Comparisons

Seamless migration: From Citrix NetScaler to Loadbalancer Enterprise in 3 easy steps

I built a parallel Loadbalancer Enterprise configuration alongside the existing Citrix NetScaler load balancer...

Greg Ashwell

• 6 mins

Healthcare

Why 1/4 of NHS trusts use our load balancers

The urgent need for digitalization, connectivity, and service transformation is putting huge strain on an already overwhelmed NHS...

Liam Canavan

• 9 mins

Storage

How can I super-charge my object storage solutions with load balancing?

Loadbalancer.org worked with this commercial bank to deliver a highly available, resilient, and scalable HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric object storage solution...

Jebez Erickson

• 4 mins

GSLB

GSLB direct-to-node: how it works, and when to use it for your object storage deployment

We do a lot of work with object storage solution providers, and one of the main concerns that they have is throughput...

Joe Robinson

• 7 mins

Security

Bolster your network with mTLS functionality from Loadbalancer.org

For Enterprise 8.9, Loadbalancer.org added a new SSL Terminator for HAProxy, allowing for mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) configurations...

Neil Hosking

• 6 mins

How-tos

How to configure mTLS on a Loadbalancer.org appliance

If you're thinking about giving mTLS a go, why not try it for yourself by following the steps below...

Neil Hosking

• 3 mins

Healthcare

How Loadbalancer.org helped this medical imaging vendor centrally manage their load balancing estate

Enhanced visibility for more efficient and secure ADC management...

Liam Canavan

• 3 mins

Security

Cybersecurity series: Five security attacks WAFs can help you with...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the role of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in application security, and what types of threat a WAF can help mitigate in your deployment...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 5 mins

Security

The pros and cons of offloading TLS/SSL encryption and decryption to your ADC

TLS encryption (formerly known as SSL encryption) is used to improve the safety of data exchanged over a network. But where should it sit in your network architecture?..

Neil Stone

• 6 mins

WAF

A beginner's guide to WAF: When and how should you use a Web Application Firewall?

Some network engineers think that Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are so complicated, they've been known to run away and hide for days when they've encountered one...

Nicholas Turnbull

• 8 mins

Events

Lessons from InfoSec 2023: how to prevent a cyber crisis with a defense-in-depth strategy

The talk of the town at InfoSec 2023 was the evolving cyber security battleground, and the practical steps organizations might take in order to mitigate some of these threats...

Joshua Turnbull

• 5 mins

The Loadbalancer ADC Portal backstory: vendor-agnostic centralized management

Our approach to software development has always been to listen to what our end users and technology providers are saying to us, and develop products that solve their specific issues...

Andrew Zak

• 4 mins

WAF

Why you shouldn't lose sleep over the commercial end-of-life of ModSecurity

The ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) engine is set to go end-of-life (EOL) on 1 July 2024...

Andrew Howe

• 5 mins

Centralized management for enhanced security with the ADC Portal

You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...

Richard Halcrow

• 3 mins

How-tos

Three scenarios for implementing time-based security and content switching on your load balancer

It can sometimes be useful to make load balancing decisions based on the time and date. This allows you to conditionally refuse or redirect connections based on the time they're received...

Andrew Howe

• 10 mins

How-tos

How to deploy a Loadbalancer appliance on Proxmox

Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...

Neil Stone

• 6 mins

Security

Should a load balancer be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?

There are two schools of thought on this: ‘yes, it should’ and ‘no, it shouldn't’. Let's look at the arguments both for and against...

Neil Hosking

• 10 mins