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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.
Insights from the load balancer experts
How-tos
What is Stunnel and how do you configure it?
Here is another example of a more “exotic” Stunnel configuration. Most people, and rightly so, will ask “but why?”. Well, because we can!..
Automation
Solving the Layer 4 ARP problem on Linux with Ansible
The ARP problem for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
GSLB
Choosing the best option to host across multiple locations or data centers
Organizations are moving away from the traditional data center model, and favoring a hybrid approach to hosting their systems and applications, that involves multiple sites, providers and even cloud environments...
Performance
The importance of adding a load balancer to your test environments
Hands up here who is guilty of making that “simple” code change in a production environment, only to find it has broken some other functionality?..
Healthcare
The role of load balancing in healthcare Robotic Process Automation
Robotic Process Automation simulates user input to drive GUI applications, freeing up clinical staff from admin tasks, reducing human error, saving money, and allowing frontline staff to spend more time with patients...
Automation
Solving the Layer 4 ARP problem on Linux with Ansible
The ARP problem for Layer 4 DR (Direct Routing) mode is something that needs to be solved for each of your Real Servers in the virtual service...
Why do you need to load balance your mission-critical financial applications?
If you need to guarantee the performance and reliability of your financial applications but aren't sure if you need a load balancer to do this, then this blog is for you...
HAPr0xy
A+ Qualys with HAPr0xy — The Secret Sauce
So you're probably here because you want to know how to achieve an A+ rating for your SSL web server on Qualys. A quick fun fact: did you know the A+ and A rating are in fact the same?..
High Availability
What can we learn from the recent Facebook outage?
On the 4th October 2021, the social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage, affecting not only Facebook, but also Instagram and WhatsApp...
How-tos
How to migrate your Loadbalancer.dk appliance from hardware to virtual
If you want the configurations to differ slightly from the hardware to virtual appliance, such as changing IP's, speak to our support team so they can best advise...
How-tos
Load balancing Leostream Connection Broker and Leostream Gateway for high availability
At its core, Leostream provides a connection broker and remote access gateway which provide you with the tools to build a completely customisable VDI solution to your specific business needs...
Comparisons
Are you crazy to buy a hardware load balancer? Maybe not...
There’s no doubt that the software adoption trend for load balancers is increasing - and the likelihood is that this will continue. After all, it makes sense right?..
GSLB
Active / active load balancing, do you need it?
In the load balancing world active/active has multiple meanings. And once you've got that hurdle out the way, you need to then work out whether you actually need it...
Automation
Automation of the initial setup of your Loadbalancer.dk appliance (VMware Edition)
Although our appliances are absolutely awesome and fun to use, going through the same process many times may become slightly tedious!..
AWS / Azure / GCP
Rethinking cloud native load balancing
In this blog we put public cloud provider AWS under the lens, and highlight some important considerations for those weighing up their cloud options...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Cloud load balancer: Why would I use my own?
The assumption is that the load balancer is inherently provided with your cloud infrastructure but this is not always the case...
WAF
Extending ModSecurity: How to add completely custom WAF functionality
In this example, I’m going to add a new transformation function to ModSecurity to calculate the Scrabble score of a variable. This will allow us to block HTTP requests containing query string parameters with a Scrabble score above a chosen threshold...
Comparisons
Scared of moving away from an F5 load balancer?
We've had a lot of frustrated F5 customers talk to us recently about the pain they are suffering,..
Integrations
How to create a load balancer SSL/TLS certificates report
A customer asked me how to export a list of SSL/TLS certificate expiry dates from our load balancer appliance...
Performance
Why use Professional Services?
Why on earth would I want to use Professional Services when I can use Support instead? Here we outline the differences and when you'd want to engage them...
Microsoft
How to load balance Microsoft Dynamics using HAPr0xy
Microsoft Dynamics is a critical ERP and CRM tool, used every day by businesses all over the world. The application therefore needs to be highly available and scalable...
Storage
Multi-site Active-Active Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze, and visualize the data gathered from the components of your IT infrastructure or business...
How-tos
How to achieve client source IP transparency with your load balancer
Working with our pre-sales customers, there is a misconception that you always need source IP transparency - which is not always the case...
How-tos
HELP! I’ve Deleted My SSH Keys!
We all have the ability to absent-mindedly break installations with a single click. Here I will show you how not only to break your SSH keys, but also how to restore them in the event you end up doing the same thing as me!..
High Availability
Can you mismatch hardware and virtual appliances for high availability?
This question came up here the other day and, while I do not recommend this approach, I thought it would be worth exploring in a blog post, explaining when and how it could be done...
How-tos
How and when to update your load balancer
A quick guide from our Solutions Engineer, Oliver Warren, outlining when, why and how to update your hardware, virtual and cloud Loadbalancer.dk appliances...
Application Management
Uptime in education: resilient applications in schools, colleges and universities
Here our Education Specialist at Loadbalancer.dk, Harrison Rockensuss, looks at the fallout from Covid-19 and the ongoing need to embrace new digital ways of working...