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Insights from the load balancer experts

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...
Microsoft

Load Balancing Microsoft Session Host in Azure

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

The 15 year story behind Loadbalancer.org...

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...
Comparisons

Loadbalancer.org 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...
Comparisons

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

As I design, build and sell load balancers based on LVS and HAProxy, 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...
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...