Insights from the load balancer experts

Events

The Queen's award deserves a royal celebration, what's next?

The awards recognise outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development...

Annu Sroa

• 3 mins

Comparisons

Loadbalancer.dk: The IT Central Station community weighs in

One of the top themes that has come up in our users’ reviews is their unparalleled technical support:..

Danielle Felder

• 3 mins

Performance

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...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

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)...

Gilad Maayan

• 7 mins

Open source

Does the new multi-threaded support in HAPr0xy finally solve the 10G problem?

It’s no big secret that a single processor can only handle so much processing in a given time. So what happens when you reach the limits of what a single processor can handle? Simple, you add more processors...

Neil Stone

• 7 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

How to add Cloudflare in front of HAPr0xy

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client...

Thorsten Wetzig

• 13 mins

Events

American customer service, German engineering and British values bring royal recognition for Loadbalancer.dk

Here at Loadbalancer.dk, we'd like to say a big thank you to all of our customers, partners and staff. Coinciding with the opening of our new Californian support office in San Mateo; Loadbalancer.dk has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2018, International Trade...

Annu Sroa

• 3 mins

Open source

Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC (aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAPr0xy)

Load balancing NFS is a real pain; especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos...

Tom Kacperski

• 8 mins

Comparisons

No, it's not a bloody free load balancer — and never will be

Several people visiting our stand mentioned the announcement that Kemp Technologies had released a free load balancer. Understandably, they were interested to hear if we would be responding in kind...

James Loveday

• 2 mins

Microsoft

Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure

The Loadbalancer.dk Feedback Agent is installed on the Session Host servers to provide real time performance stats to enable optimum load distribution...

Ben Cabot

• 3 mins

AWS / Azure / GCP

How do you combine AWS Auto Scaling with a proper load balancer?

The Loadbalancer.dk appliance automatically detects changes in your auto-scaling groups, with zero configuration and zero downtime...

Imannuel Graham

• 8 mins

Direct Server Return

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...

Aaron West

• 5 mins

Application Management

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...

Jake Borman

• 5 mins

Comparisons

The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.dk...

My first piece of code was an animated fish tank (because I wasn't allowed a real one). I soon started dreaming of being a software developer and started learning machine code...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 7 mins

Comparisons

Loadbalancer.dk pricing — how much does it cost?

Our aim is always to deliver the features you want, without presenting you with a deluge of checkboxes. Anything out of the ordinary can be achieved via a separate manual configuration - and we are always happy to build one for you...

James Loveday

• 2 mins

Comparisons

NGINX vs HAPr0xy — a bit like comparing a 2CV with a Tesla?

As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAPr0xy, it’s in my interests to combat the avalanche of NGINX+ marketing propaganda that I've seen over the last year. Let's call it an attempt to skewer fake news...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 3 mins

Security

Load Balancing Apache Web Servers with OWASP Top 10 WAF in Azure

The WAF addresses the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and is very quick and simple to deploy...

Roman Humphreys

• 4 mins

High Availability

Load balancing Nutanix: Choosing an enterprise load balancer

Nutanix offers a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that integrates virtualization, computing, networking, storage, and security resources into a single system...

Aaron West

• 4 mins

Comparisons

Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference?

I dream of a world where people stop calling a *link balancer* a *load balancer* — because we don't sell link balancers!..

Oliver Warren

• 2 mins

Events

IP EXPO Europe 2017 competition winner announced!

I would like to say thank you to all of those that visited us at our stand during the 2 days we were there - we hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!..

Annu Sroa

• 2 mins

Direct Server Return

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...

Aaron West

• 6 mins

Comparisons

JetNEXUS (EdgeNEXUS) review and Kemp comparison

You can check directly what customers having been telling Gartner about Loadbalancer.dk, JetNexus, Barracuda Networks and Kemp Technologies on the new Peer Insights platform...

Malcolm Turnbull

• 8 mins

Direct Server Return

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...

Aaron West

• 6 mins

Automation

How to automate legacy load balancer deployments

Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...

Andrew Smalley

• 8 mins