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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.
Insights from the load balancer experts
Storage
Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster
Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Connecting remote sites to central data centers necessitates GSLB. But implementation for legacy modalities isn't straightforward...
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...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Cloud load balancer: Why would I use my own?
The assumption is that the load balancer is inherently provided with your cloud infrastructure but this is not always the case...
WAF
Extending ModSecurity: How to add completely custom WAF functionality
In this example, I’m going to add a new transformation function to ModSecurity to calculate the Scrabble score of a variable. This will allow us to block HTTP requests containing query string parameters with a Scrabble score above a chosen threshold...
Comparisons
Scared of moving away from an F5 load balancer?
We've had a lot of frustrated F5 customers talk to us recently about the pain they are suffering,..
Integration
How to create a load balancer SSL/TLS certificates report
I should really say that not every request of this type can be turned around on the same day - but we do try!..
Performance
Why use Professional Services?
Why on earth would I want to use Professional Services when I can use Support instead? Here we outline the differences and when you'd want to engage them...
Microsoft
How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAProxy
Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable...
Storage
Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...
How-tos
How to achieve client source IP transparency with your load balancer
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case...
How-tos
HELP! I’ve Deleted My SSH Keys!
We all have the ability to absent-mindedly break installations with a single click. Here I will show you how not only to break your SSH keys, but also how to restore them in the event you end up doing the same thing as me!..
High Availability
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
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...