Insights from the load balancer experts

Healthcare

Lessons from RSNA 2021: Do your medical imaging systems need critical care?

The pain experienced by your support and professional service teams is enormous. Not least because every customer experiences this issue at the same time!..

George Booth

• 3 mins

Microsoft

Considerations for higher education institutions rolling out virtual desktops

There are a number of different types of virtual desktops; two of which rely on virtualization software...

Harrison Rockensuss

• 4 mins

Cloud migration checklist for universities: When and why

For each application, will you 'lift and shift' or rebuild specifically for the cloud? Which applications can't or shouldn't be moved? Do you want separate applications in separate clouds..

Harrison Rockensuss

• 3 mins

Storage

How to harness object storage in banking

Object storage has usurped structured data storage as the superior storage architecture solution. And for good reason...

James Loveday

• 3 mins

How-tos

How to extend Net-SNMP for infrastructure monitoring

Monitoring your infrastructure is a crucial task, and (regardless of the software you've chosen) requires you to make use of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)...

Damian Pacuszka

• 4 mins

High Availability

Why does high availability matter?

If your applications are mission-critical, then high availability is a key risk management play worth investing in...

Zia Paul-Birabi

• 3 mins

How our load balancers meet the unique needs of credit unions

Increasingly, credit unions are looking to load balance their applications to offer highly available and more resilient services to their members...

Kashim Cooper

• 3 mins

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?..

Daniel Tighe

• 4 mins

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...

Liam Canavan

• 3 mins

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...

Seamus Toth

• 5 mins

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...

Kashim Cooper

• 3 mins

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?..

Oliver Warren

• 4 mins

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...

Seamus Toth

• 4 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 2 mins

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...

Daniel Tighe

• 5 mins

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?..

Lea Friend

• 4 mins

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...

Oliver Warren

• 4 mins

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!..

Damian Pacuszka

• 5 mins

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...

James Loveday

• 7 mins

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...

Ben Lewis

• 4 mins

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...

Andrew Howe

• 12 mins

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,..

Oliver Warren

• 6 mins

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...

Andrew Smalley

• 6 mins

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...

Daniel Tighe

• 6 mins