Insights from the load balancer experts

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!..

Andrew Smalley

• 6 mins

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...

Daniel Tighe

• 5 mins

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...

Andrei Grigoras

• 3 mins

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...

Rob Cooper

• 5 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 5 mins

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!..

Daniel Tighe

• 4 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 3 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 6 mins

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...

Harrison Rockensuss

• 5 mins

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...

Rob Cooper

• 4 mins

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...

Andrew Howe

• 3 mins

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…..

Richard Halcrow

• 4 mins

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...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

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?..

Miles Martin

• 4 mins

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!..

Aaron West

• 3 mins

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...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

Comparisons

10G is dead. Long live 25G!

The need for speed has always been one of mankind's greatest loves...

Ged Ward

• 6 mins

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...

Rosalind Bootle

• 1 min

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...

Roman Humphreys

• 5 mins

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...

Neil Hosking

• 2 mins

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...

Doc Ballje

• 6 mins

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...

Ben Lewis

• 3 mins

Comparisons

Multi-application verus 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?..

Malcolm Turnbull

• 4 mins

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...

Rosalind Bootle

• 1 min