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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
They might share a similar feature checklist, but they're engineered for entirely different audiences...
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Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Centralized management for enhanced security with the ADC Portal
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
You need a clear, comprehensive view of your entire load balancing estate to maintain control and security...
Three scenarios for implementing time-based security and content switching on your load balancer
Andrew Howe
Former Technical Author/Architect
It can sometimes be useful to make load balancing decisions based on the time and date. This allows you to conditionally refuse or redirect connections based on the time they're received...
How to deploy a Loadbalancer appliance on Proxmox
Neil Stone
Test Lead & EMEA/US Support Shift Leader
Hypervisors such as Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi have the ability to import disk images within their graphical WebGUI. However, Proxmox unfortunately lacks this feature...
Should a load balancer be your first line of defense against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks?
Neil Hosking
Former Technical Support Engineer
There are two schools of thought on this: ‘yes, it should’ and ‘no, it shouldn't’. Let's look at the arguments both for and against...
How do F5, Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org ADCs compare?
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
To save you some time, here's a quick summary of how F5, Progress Kemp, and Loadbalancer.org compare on the big three: price, features, and ease of use...
What's wrong with round-robin DNS?
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Round-robin DNS is a technique that distributes traffic across multiple servers by rotating through a list of IP addresses associated with a single hostname...
OWASP doesn't want you to have crAPI security
Nicholas Turnbull
Backend Developer
Here's what we learned from crAPI about API security, and how a Web Application Firewall (WAF) can help you take things one step further...
Loadbalancer.org vs F5: Which ADC for your enterprise imaging applications?
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Why is Loadbalancer.org the market leader in load balancing medical imaging applications? And what DON'T you get from F5?..
The role of load balancers in zero trust architectures
Dave Saunders
Head of Client Engineering
Getting on board with zero trust is the easy part. Actually applying these principles to your architecture is less black and white...
Hack Pompey 2023: The power of innovation
Andrew Zak
Head of Development
Loadbalancer.org was proud sponsor and participant at the south coast’s biggest hackathon, held at the University of Portsmouth...
How Loadbalancer.org provided this medical imaging vendor with more technical and commercial flexibility in AWS
Liam Canavan
Healthcare Lead
Working with this medical imaging vendor to provide a tailored load balancing solution for their medical imaging platform in the public cloud...
How Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) can help object storage vendors increase their margins in an economic downturn
Jebez Erickson
Former Storage Partnerships Manager
With IT spend under the microscope, data storage vendors are unlikely to escape scrutiny, making it harder for them to win new business and hit targets...