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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.
Insights from the load balancer experts
HAProxy
How to configure HAProxy's Proxy Protocol with Squid
A customer asked me the other day how to set up Squid Proxy Protocol on their Loadbalancer appliance...
GSLB
Complete guide to DNS load balancing: Choosing the right method for your applications
DNS is a naming convention that translates human-readable web addresses into IP-addresses, and vice versa...
Comparisons
Load balancer migration: The F5 alternative turning heads
If you're an F5 customer thinking of moving to an alternative, then you're not alone...
How-tos
How and when to update your load balancer
A quick guide from our Solutions Engineer, Oliver Warren, outlining when, why and how to update your hardware, virtual and cloud Loadbalancer.org appliances...
Education
Uptime in education: resilient applications in schools, colleges and universities
Here our Education Specialist at Loadbalancer.org, Harrison Rockensuss, looks at the fallout from Covid-19 and the ongoing need to embrace new digital ways of working...
Microsoft
Are the Microsoft apps you depend on dependable enough?! Load balancing for seamless service delivery
Hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world rely on Microsoft applications to deliver their fundamental IT services. However, these apps aren't always 100% dependable...
Open source
Announcing CVE-2021-35368: OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Bypass
In early June 2021, I identified a request body bypass vulnerability in the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS). Loadbalancer.org appliances themselves are unaffected...
Comparisons
How to get the most out of your FREE TRIAL: successfully evaluating a load balancer
How do you successfully evaluate a load balancer? We’ve compiled some of the key considerations when trialling any new software product…..
HAProxy
Thinking about moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer?
Here our Loadbalancer.org Founder, Malcolm Turnbull, offers advice to anyone thinking of moving from HAProxy to a proprietary load balancer...
Open source
Open source versus proprietary load balancers
Should you invest in a proprietary load balancer from one of the market leaders like F5? Or should you take a chance on open source load balancing software?..
Comparisons
Load balancer migration: Does your F5 migration need a Jenga consultant?
Look, let’s make this very clear, we love F5, we think they are awesome, the best ADC in the market. But sometimes they make you want to cry!..
Performance
Why won't NFSv3 just die already?
I ran into a problem recently where a customer was working to load balance NFS to their scale-out NAS product, they were saying that it mounted fine but “showmount -e” just wouldn’t work properly from their Linux client...
Comparisons
10G is dead. Long live 25G!
The need for speed has always been one of mankind's greatest loves...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Digital transformation: when should you move to the cloud?
There are a number of considerations around when and when not to use cloud, and I don't think there'll ever be a single 'this is the right time or the right scenario' to use it...
Print
Moving your print server to the cloud
The process of maintaining, supporting, and securing Print environments can be complicated and expensive – even for organizations that have the staff and budget to devote to it...
Application Management
Load balancing Exchange 2019
Microsoft Exchange 2019 upholds the legacy of Exchange 2016, 2013 (and numerous earlier versions) by continuing to be the ubiquitous mail server and calendaring service of choice for small, medium and enterprise-level organizations the world over...
Print
Hold on, printers need load balancing too?
It really boils down to what you are printing, the volume of print jobs, and often the application it comes from...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Three big benefits of cloud load balancing
From CRMs that store customer information and ERP systems that track product data to cloud-computing platforms that can host websites and run multiple applications – organizations are using more and more cloud-based solutions to meet various business requirements...
Comparisons
Multi-application or dedicated load balancing – which approach is best?
With a big, powerful and expensive ADC load balancer, there can be a strong temptation to load balance multiple applications – but when uptime is critical, could it become a single point of failure?..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Is the future in the cloud?
If you're building a brand new application today and you were delivering that out en masse to consumers, you would, in most cases, choose to deploy that in the cloud...
How-tos
How to install and configure HAProxy Layer 7 on Red Hat Linux
Control how HAProxy will be started, stopped, restarted, reloaded, or monitored...
High Availability
How to calculate the true cost of downtime to your organization
There’s one constant when it comes to downtime: whether the outage is expected or not, without access to systems or applications, your organization will probably experience some sort of pain...
GSLB
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Ensuring high availability of a Microsoft Exchange environment for a leading cloud provider
Our expertise enabled a leading cloud provider for IT resellers optimize their Microsoft Exchange environment making it highly available for 130,000+ users...
Open source
Open source software: myth-busting, business benefits and FOSDEM '21
At the end of the day open source is really about having access to the source code for your tools and programs, to do whatever you want to do with it...
Healthcare
Digital pathology: five ways to ensure fast and successful adoption
There's an urgent need to digitize pathology services globally – and, in the UK in particular, the introduction of new digital pathology methods is considered a priority...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Relaunching our load balancer for multi and hybrid cloud environments
How did our cloud load balancer go from one of the first on the market to a trusted solution for hybrid and multi-cloud environments?..