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Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Layer 7 is content-aware so able to make intelligent decisions about where to send traffic...
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Application Management
Improving the performance, reliability, and maintenance of applications
Aaron West
Why Direct Server Return (DSR) is simply awesome
Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent, and super fast...
Direct Server Return
Application Management
Layer 4
Jake Borman
Load Balancing Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
In the Azure Management Portal, select the Virtual Machines option, click on the newly deployed Load Balancer VM, click on Network interfaces and then select the network interface attached to the load balancer, then click IP configurations and ensure that IP forwarding is Enabled...
Application Management
WAF
AWS / Azure / GCP
Andrei Grigoras
How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy
Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy...
Application Management
Microsoft
HAProxy
James Loveday
Load balancing diagnostic medical imaging — Strengthening the radiology workflow
An efficient, resilient radiology workflow is crucial to delivering the best patient care. A complex and ever-changing environment, often with resource constraints, requires a considered approach...
Healthcare
Application Management
Andrew Smalley
How to configure a DICOM ECHO health check for medical imaging systems
We thought it was important to have a specific health check built into our appliance for the commonly used DICOM protocol (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)...
Healthcare
How-tos
Application Management
Imannuel Graham
Load Balancing Nginx Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure
SSL offload is handled by STunnel, while HAProxy handles back-end server re-encryption...
WAF
Application Management
AWS / Azure / GCP
Neil Hosking
MS SQL Health Check
Follow the instructions below to install and configure the external health check, and once you've completed the steps you can use the health check for either layer 4 (LVS) or layer 7 (HAproxy) clusters...
Microsoft
Application Management
How-tos
Aaron West
I didn't realise NTP was so important for medical imaging systems like PACS and VNA
We can write custom health checks specific to your environment checking availability of servers as well as other backend systems such as REST servers, databases and storage...
Healthcare
Application Management
How-tos
Rob Cooper
Load balancing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services in AWS
Using the flexibility of both AWS and our Enterprise AWS appliance, it's possible to configure a secure and robust load balanced Remote Desktop Services deployment to suit a range of requirements...
Application Management
Microsoft
AWS / Azure / GCP
Rob Cooper
Windows NLB (WNLB) and its disadvantages
WNLB causes switch flooding and does not support multiple scheduling algorithms for distributing client load...
Microsoft
Application Management
Rob Cooper
Load Balancing Exchange 2013
Exchange 2013 is Microsoft's latest enterprise level messaging and collaboration server. It has been designed for simplicity of scale, hardware utilization, and failure isolation...
Application Management
Microsoft
How-tos
Rob Cooper
Load Balancing Exchange 2010
In Exchange 2010, system functionality is split into five server roles (Mailbox, Client Access (CAS), Unified Messaging, Hub Transport (HT) and Edge Transport). Mandatory roles are Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport...
Application Management
Microsoft
How-tos