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Hardening HashiCorp Vault with load balancing for always-on security
In a production environment, Vault downtime isn't just a security risk — it’s a total operational hard-stop...
Aaron West
Why use Polaris-GSLB: The lightweight, open source GSLB you’ve been waiting for (Part 1)
Here at Loadbalancer.org we’re not known for being huge fans of GSLB solutions as some of our customers may already know...
GSLB
High Availability
Open source
Andrei Grigoras
Disaster recovery is more important than HTTPS SNI support...
SNI is an extension to the TLS protocol which enables the client to broadcast its hostname when it tries to connect to your server. This allows you to use multiple SSL certificates on a single IP...
High Availability
Security
Malcolm Turnbull
Exchange 2013 - Microsoft finally have an email solution designed for high availability and load balancing
In Exchange Server 2013, there are two basic building blocks – the Client Access Array and the Database Availability Group (DAG)...
High Availability
Microsoft
Application Management
Scott McKeown
Setting up HAProxy with Transparent Mode on Centos 6.x
Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy...
HAProxy
High Availability
Open source
Aaron West
Load Balancing Exchange 2010 CAS Array with HAProxy (Quick Guide)
This Blog is for anyone wanting to load balance the Exchange 2010 CAS role using only open source software...
Application Management
HAProxy
Microsoft
Mark Brookes
Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick
Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..
High Availability
How-tos
Rob Cooper
Apache and X-Forwarded-For Header: How to log XFF using Apache
There’s been a lot of debate here in the office about how best to capture both your Loadbalancer’s IP and the Source IP of the user in your access_log in Apache 2.4. This is the tried and tested method we've come up with...
Application Management
How-tos
High Availability
Malcolm Turnbull
Why does GSLB suck?
Ok, before I start to fan the flames, let me start with the usual caveat; GSLB doesn't ALWAYS suck — just more often than you'd think, for these reasons.....
GSLB
High Availability
Malcolm Turnbull
Loadbalancer.org guarantee 99.999% (5 nines) uptime to all of our customers
Some vendors make a fair bit of hype about their products enabling 99.999% availability out of the box...
High Availability