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Insights from the load balancer experts

Performance

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing - we still love DSR, but…

Direct server return, direct routing - no matter what you call it, using DSR maximises the throughput of return traffic and allows for near endless scalability. Here's why we still love it...
Storage

How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data

There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data ...
Events

Talking free and open-source at FOSDEM 2020

Peter Statham talks about how it was to be a part of the 20th edition of FOSDEM - Europe's biggest free and open-source event!..
Healthcare

Load balancing: the backbone of seamless healthcare interoperability

Just like you and I, healthcare systems now talk to each other. Your data can be shared and accessed by all the stakeholders involved in the process of your treatment. To know more, read our blog on healthcare interoperability...
AWS / Azure / GCP

AWS reservations, savings plans, and spot instances explained

I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans"...
Events

What the hack!

Hack Pompey is a Portsmouth based social hack event for people from all backgrounds and disciplines to come together, collaborate and build something awesome...
How-tos

Smart, secure encryption with SNI

In the early days of the Internet, there was very little encrypted traffic. People simply trusted that nobody was out to get them. But later on, security and encryption became an important part of online life...