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Compare load balancing vendors and techniques to make the right choice. Get honest, in-depth comparisons of Loadbalancer.org vs. F5, Citrix, and Kemp on price, features, and complexity, plus guides comparing Layer 4, 7, and GSLB methods for new deployments.

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ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB

15 reasons why you don't need a load balancer: Yes, really

If you want to test your site against this kind of attack, slow attacks like this are quite inexpensive for attackers to launch, and they don't need control of many remote hosts in order to launch an effective attack...

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Do you remember when you could get fired — for not buying F5?

A pair of F5s is a great solution, but mainly if you need to run a crazy number of applications and servers through a single device. In that case, you definitely need an expensive, complicated, over-specified and over-engineered single point of failure...

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Loadbalancer.org must've been well behaved in 2016

HAProxy Technologies' ALOHA Pocket is a full-featured ALOHA Load Balancer running on a light USB-powered hardware that easily fits in a pocket, meaning it's possible to carry it everywhere to run tests and demos...

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