Insights from the load balancer experts

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...

Andrei Grigoras

• 3 mins

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...

Richard Halcrow

• 4 mins

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...

Aaron West

• 8 mins

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...

Rosalind Bootle

• 2 mins

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...

Rosalind Bootle

• 1 min

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...

James Loveday

• 6 mins

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?..

Ben Lewis

• 5 mins

Performance

Why use a reverse proxy?

For businesses struggling with web congestion due to heavy usage, using a reverse proxy is the right solution...

Himakshi Goswami

• 6 mins

Healthcare

Customer success story: bringing ultra-reliability, scalability and uninterrupted access to IBM PACS

In a mission-critical environment, zero downtime is essential. Therefore, application maintenance, performance updates, and security patches needed to be carried out without causing user interruptions or inconvenience...

Rosalind Bootle

• 2 mins

High Availability

What is a load balancer? A comprehensive guide to load balancing

Hidden in data centers around the world, there are millions of load balancers that keep businesses and their applications fully functional 24/7 – making sure users enjoy a seamless and uninterrupted high-quality experience at every single click...

Damian Pacuszka

• 11 mins

Open source

ModSecurity and the Case of the Never Decreasing Variables

In the world of web application security, it can be invaluable to consider a user's behaviour across the entire duration of their web app session...

Andrew Howe

• 10 mins

Performance

Making the most of Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): If you’ve got it, use it

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world. But why – and when – should you use it?..

Ged Ward

• 5 mins

Open source

NGINX and X-Forwarded-For Header (XFF)

The X-Forwarded-For Header is a simple yet powerful solution to a very common problem. I'm not sure why, but for some reason it also seems to cause a lot of confusion...

Dave Saunders

• 3 mins

High Availability

Ensuring highly available remote desktop services for Fortune 500 companies

Our expertise enabled an IT services provider to ensure reliability and high availability service for existing and new customers...

Rosalind Bootle

• 2 mins

Print

Why zero downtime for print management is critical

A properly load balanced print management solution can ensure zero downtime, resilience, a simplified infrastructure, easy maintenance and optimal performance...

Himakshi Goswami

• 4 mins

WAF

How to train your Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Let's look at the best way to use the WAF with as little pain as possible!..

Aaron West

• 10 mins

Storage

Things to keep in mind while choosing a load balancer for your object storage system

Need your object storage system to be highly available, reliable and scalable? We've got you covered. Check out the most important things you need to know when load balancing your storage architecture...

Himakshi Goswami

• 3 mins

Application Management

How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service

A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...

Tom Hopkins

• 3 mins

Storage

NAS vs Object Storage: what's best for unstructured data?

While data storage was simple once upon a time – it isn’t anymore...

Himakshi Goswami

• 4 mins

Comparisons

Hardware, virtual, or cloud: how we help customers migrate seamlessly across platforms

In this ever-evolving business world, flexibility is the key to long-term success...

Richard Halcrow

• 5 mins

Comparisons

What's the best 10G switch upgrade path — 40G or 25G?

The explosion of information in our everyday lives has driven the technology market to create newer, faster technologies to cater for the storage and access to the data created...

Ged Ward

• 6 mins

HAProxy

Loadbalancer.org releases Open Source SNMP MIB and Agent for HAProxy

We’re always keen to give back to the community that writes such great software – our new SNMP agents and MIBs for HAProxy make monitoring your Virtual Services and Real Servers a breeze...

Peter Statham

• 7 mins

Microsoft

Making a leading charity’s email system secure, accessible and reliable

Our expertise enabled a leading charity utilise their Microsoft Exchange email system making it easily accessible, secure, scalable and reliable...

Rosalind Bootle

• 2 mins

Application Management

DC (direct current) powered application delivery: an energy-saving game changer for the data center industry?

The AC versus DC debate is ongoing. Find out which power supply works best when it comes to the modern day data center – and why...

Himakshi Goswami

• 5 mins