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Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture.
Insights from the load balancer experts
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to set up and manage an F5 in the ADC Portal
As an F5 engineer, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
F5 / Citrix / Kemp
How to connect and manage a Citrix NetScaler in the Loadbalancer ADC Portal
As a NetScaler specialist, they asked me to test the product and share my honest thoughts...
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...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Why move your applications to the cloud?
Talking about the cloud and actually moving to the cloud are two very different things...
How-tos
How to load balance and optimize Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)
If you want safe, easy-to-use object storage software then the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) is it. But why, and how, can you optimize this solution with load balancing?..
High Availability
Proactive network management for business continuity
We'd all rather prevent a disaster than have to live with the consequences of one...
How-tos
Mastering Load Balancing for MinIO Object Storage
We're going to have a look at setting up a Layer 7 VIP, which will connect back to our MinIO servers...
Load balancing object storage in hospitals
The use case for object storage in hospitals, and why it needs a dedicated load balancing solution...
Comparisons
Tailoring — The modern way to make your product indestructible
Growing customer demands are forcing technology providers to reconsider their approach to high availability and scalability...
How-tos
Using Postman with the Loadbalancer.org API
Before we can connect to the loadbalancer appliance using SSH, we first need to allow this action through the Appliance Security Options via Local Configuration and then, Security...
Use Case
How Loadbalancer.org helped deliver PACS high availability for a group of large enterprise hospitals in the Middle East
As with the majority of Loadbalancer.org's projects in the Middle East, the goal of this project was to help a group of hospitals achieve highly available medical imaging systems...
High Availability
The dangers of not having a high availability setup for your load balancer — as well as your applications!
Why do you need TWO load balancers?..
WAF
Handling large requests with a Web Application Firewall (WAF) while avoiding Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
Sometimes, we need to pass unusually large HTTP requests through our WAF stack...
Media
Why load balancing will be a key (albeit hidden) component of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
The focus will very much be on re-living all that's happened to the royal family in those 70 years. But that means digging deep into the media archives.....
HAProxy
How to rate limit with HAProxy Stick Tables and the WAF
A while ago I was asked if it would be possible to apply some general rate limiting in HAProxy and the WAF, in order to help prevent DOS-style attacks on a customer's servers...
Security
What can we learn from the recent F5 security vulnerability?
F5 recently announced a critical security vulnerability, allowing an attacker to bypass its iControl REST authentication, and execute commands such as creating or deleting files and disabling services...
Media
Why Chris Moyles' nod to load balancing makes him an official #ADCHero!
On May 11th 2022, I was listening to the awesome Chris Moyles Show, on Radio when a site they were using crashed while they were on air...
High Availability
How to set up email notifications on your Loadbalancer.org appliance
Email notifications are a great way of alerting you to any changes or issues within your load balancer or high availability cluster...
How-tos
When is it right to SSL offload?
It's a fair question, right? Let's take away the strain of SSL terminations from our application servers and let the load balancers deal with it. After all, why would we want to bog down our nifty application with network-level considerations?..
High Availability
What's the point of load balancing?
Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!..
Security
Spring Framework vulnerabilities
It is understandable that SysAdmins, DevOps, and most in the IT and Security Departments involved want to ensure all load balancers are fully patched and protected, given that our product plays an important role in their topology...
Comparisons
How many network ports do you need on a hardware load balancer?
The only real reason for separate network ports is physical redundancy. Because the other primary reason (security segregation) can be easily implemented using VLANs...
Open source
Navigating the open source journey: When free is awesome, and why commercial solutions have their place
At Loadbalancer.org, our heroes are open source. And for good reason. Open source software plays an intrinsic part in our company, products, and services...
Security
DoS vulnerability in OpenSSL related to certificate parsing (CVE-2022-0778)
Customers with manually configured, custom client authentication deployments (rare) or using “re-encrypt to backend” to communicate with untrusted third-party servers (very rare) may be impacted...
Performance
Application Acceleration — and why you DON'T need it
As you know, we get excited about solutions, not semantics, so I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'Application Acceleration' is one of those buzzwords that's about as useful as all that designer water that's out there these days...
How-tos
Ever wondered how you can avoid the pain of F5 iRules?
Many things in tech are over-complicated for no reason, and iRules are a prime example of that...
Performance
When should you get a hardware replacement? After 3, 5, or 17 years...?
The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies...