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Sovereignty, speed, and scalability: How neocloud providers are building resilient S3 storage architectures

The long-standing honeymoon with the public cloud hyperscalers—AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—is officially over...

Comparisons 13 Jul 2026

HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison

Jeff Gosden QA Lead

Storage 10 Jun 2026

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

Joshua Turnbull Managing Director

Healthcare 12 May 2025

Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!

Lenin Martinez Professional Services Engineer

Storage

11 Nov 2019

Load balancing: The driving force behind successful object storage

Himakshi Goswami Former Content Specialist

Do you know that your Kindle is spying on you? It knows how fast you read a book, how many pages you read, at which point you stopped reading and which passages you have bookmarked...

19 Sep 2019

Microsoft Windows print spooler and any other Windows service health check

Imannuel Graham Former Technical Support Engineer

If you haven’t already deployed print servers with high availability, please don't fret. It is a relatively simple and straightforward process,..

Comparisons

07 Sep 2019

How should you compare load balancers?

Malcolm Turnbull Co-Founder & CEO

I didn't ask anything about the load balancer's features, because we already know the market is mature and I have no unusual requirements. I also didn't ask about the load balancer's maximum performance...

AWS / Azure / GCP

02 Sep 2019

Choosing the best load balancer for AWS: Cloud conundrums

Neil Hosking Former Technical Support Engineer

You’re moving over to Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you know you’ll find a broad set of global cloud-based services. These services help organizations like yours to move faster, lower IT costs, and scale...

Comparisons

19 Aug 2019

What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms?

Malcolm Turnbull Co-Founder & CEO

The primary function of a load balancer is to keep your application running with no downtime. It is an invaluable tool for systems architects, and it has the benefit of being pretty simple to understand...

Open source

22 Jul 2019

Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall

Aaron West Former Head of Solutions Architecture

We were delighted last week to host Smoothwall for a day with our team. Fuelled by coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, our discussions helped us learn from one another so that we can work together even more effectively...

Security

20 Jun 2019

SACK Panic: What is it, and is it actually time to panic?

Andrew Howe Former Technical Author/Architect

Four closely related vulnerabilities regarding TCP handling in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels were publicly disclosed on 17 June 2019...

Security

23 May 2019

Huawei root access is BAD! VERY, VERY BAD: Or, how we reasoned ourselves out of root access by default

Malcolm Turnbull Co-Founder & CEO

As you probably know, the notorious Chinese tech company was blacklisted OK, so Trump didn't actually say that about Huawei. But, given his recent declaration, it wouldn't surprise me if he did...

How-tos

07 May 2019

How do I secure my load balancer with Active Directory, LDAP or RADIUS?

Neil Hosking Former Technical Support Engineer

I’ve noticed a lot more of our customers are asking to use their Active Directory login details with the load balancer appliance. And it can get a bit fiddly, so I wanted to explain the process in more detail...