How-tos
Ever wondered how you can avoid the pain of F5 iRules?
Many things in tech are over-complicated for no reason, and iRules are a prime example of that...
AWS / Azure / GCP
Expecting growth? Get a load balancer that will always meet expectations
Load balancers are built to help scale up your back end servers, to allow for the growth of users. But what if the load balancer could also grow with you?..
High Availability
The easiest way to reduce downtime — avoid a single point of failure
We get a lot of customers asking to buy a single load balancer. Understandably. One is cheaper than two. But here's why you might want a pair...
HAProxy
HAProxy ACL rules don't have to be painful
We love complex rules. Although, we have seen some pretty scary config files...
HAProxy
A+ Qualys with HAProxy — 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?..
How-tos
How to migrate your Loadbalancer.org 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...
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...
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,..
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...
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.org appliances...
High Availability
Can you load balance multiple applications at the same time?
Performance is not generally an issue when load balancing multiple applications - but maintenance is...
Application Management
Monitoring Loadbalancer.org appliances using OmniCenter from Netreo
OmniCenter is a server monitoring, alerting and reporting product which can be deployed to monitor your whole network/infrastructure, providing a single place to view of all systems and alerting you if there are any problems...
Comparisons
Load balancing vs link balancing — what exactly is the difference?
I dream of a world where people stop calling a *link balancer* a *load balancer* — because we don't sell link balancers!..