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What's the best cloud load balancer? AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, or a third-party alternative?
Choosing the right load balancer is about much more than just moving traffic...
Tom Hopkins
Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Performance
Andrew Howe
15 years later, we still love DSR: Why Layer 4 DR mode rocks
For the uninitiated, Direct Server Return is a clever trick which entails directly routing packets to the chosen real server...
Direct Server Return
Performance
Layer 4
Aaron West
Load balancing your load balancers for a crazy amount of SSL TPS
The plan is to use an inexpensive pair of load balancers - using Layer 4 DR mode for maximum throughput and transparency - to load balance some more mid to high-end load balancers. This enables us to handle the SSL offload at a much more affordable price than simply buying a big box...
Performance
How-tos
Gilad Maayan
How to design a disaster recovery plan for your cloud infrastructure
To design a well-targeted disaster recovery plan, you need to work out two key metrics: the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO)...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Performance
How-tos
Imannuel Graham
How do you combine AWS Auto Scaling with a proper load balancer?
The Loadbalancer.org appliance automatically detects changes in your auto-scaling groups, with zero configuration and zero downtime...
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos
Performance
Aaron West
Yahoo’s L3 Direct Server Return (DSR), an alternative to LVS-TUN, explored
L3 DSR is an alternative technique to achieve direct server return at Layer 3. Instead of using an IPIP tunnel like LVS-TUN it changes the destination IP address like LVS-NAT when sending the traffic to the real server...
Direct Server Return
How-tos
Performance
Aaron West
Layer 4 Direct Routing (LVS-DR) and Layer 4 TUN (LVS-TUN) in AWS
LVS-DR and LVS-TUN are both forms of Direct Server Return where the load balancer only has to deal with one half of the connection...
Direct Server Return
Performance
How-tos
Ben Cabot
Voice Activated Load Balancing? Could it actually work
We decided that we would like to be able to change server states and bring them online, offline or drain them. So asking Alexa to do this would look like “Alexa ask Val to change status of website1 to drain”. So we started work with this as our goal...
Performance
Malcolm Turnbull
What do you mean my pipe is saturated?
Some of the most common questions we get at Loadbalancer.org are performance related. It is quite difficult to give a straight answer to these questions as the real answer is often slightly unsatisfactory...
Performance
HAProxy
Malcolm Turnbull
Look, why can't you just tell me how many people are connected to the load balancer?
I must confess, at certain times it has looked like open warfare would break out between the support team and development team at Loadbalancer.org over the last few months...
Performance
How-tos
Mark Brookes
G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing
A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!..
Performance
How-tos
Malcolm Turnbull
EC2 load balancer appliance rocks, and its FREE... for now anyway.
I’m excited and slightly scared by our latest product! Excited because I've become slightly addicted to launching multiple instances in different parts of the world and load balancing the traffic seamlessly. Scared because this could change our whole business model...
Performance
AWS / Azure / GCP
How-tos