Coming from a background assisting companies large and small to get the most from open source solutions. Aaron found joining the support team at Loadbalancer.org a natural progression. Aaron’s interests include distro-hopping, B Movies and quality time spent with his family.
We’re often asked why we broke the mold with our support team and removed the tiers. Well, I wanted to go into that decision to justify why we did it and why I personally still think it’s really what makes the BEST SUPPORT TEAM in the world a reality at Loadbalancer.org!
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I often hear that AWS seems expensive, in most cases, this is because people are not fully aware of the best cost-saving practices. Amazon offers many tools to help keep costs down and is always working to improve on these. One such recent improvement is the new "AWS Savings Plans".
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As the title suggests, I'm going to take a look at the concept of load balancing a cluster of inexpensive load balancers to scale out SSL capabilities (or even Layer 7 operations), rather than the typical idea of scaling up SSL offload capabilities by buying ever-larger appliances with ever more
Direct Server Return (DSR) is my favorite way to load balance application servers because it’s simple, transparent and super fast. Direct server return would seem to be a mode that has fallen out of fashion, in fact most application delivery vendors seem to hate DSR mode. Vendors often write
Yes, it's the end of an era... after many years arguing that GSLB has no place on a proper load balancer, I've finally found a solid reason to add one to our product. Yes, you read that right! I've officially surrendered and given you a new GSLB to play with...!
Update as of July 2018 Loadbalancer.org load balancers are now certified as Nutanix Ready Nutanix seems to be the next big thing in enterprise virtualization and hyperconvergence, while they've actually been in the market for quite some time(~2011) the buzz around them right now is huge! I think
I had the opportunity to play with Yahoo’s implementation of L3 DSR using LVS and iptables, it was great fun so I thought I had better write a blog on using it. So, what exactly is L3 DSR and why should I care when I already have LVS-TUN? L3
Have you ever wondered if LVS works in AWS? I can already say for certain that LVS-NAT works great - but what about LVS-DR and LVS-TUN? Having spent the last several months playing in AWS, I'm writing this blog mostly to record my findings. I was trying to get LVS
Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate.
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"I don't think we can use your load balancer, because it's not a reverse proxy..." said the slightly confused reseller. Which got me thinking, maybe I should write a blog about the difference between a Reverse Proxy Server and a Forward Proxy Server? For that matter - what
I’ve had a fruitful weekend getting up to speed with oVirt the awesome virtualization platform founded by Red Hat. It’s been great fun getting to grips with it’s features making me quite jealous as I’m normally a Libvirt/KVM user, so seeing all the pretty and
Let’s Encrypt offers us a free way to get SSL certs with the aim to be less complex than our current solutions, hmm... Well that sounds pretty cool! I had known about Let’s Encrypt for a while now but never had the need to take the plunge until
In part one we were introduced to Polaris-GSLB which is a cool little open source GSLB solution, we went through a simple use case scenario and discussed the features it supports. In part two of this Blog I’m going to show you how to build Polaris-GSLB on CentOS 7.
Here at Loadbalancer.org we’re not known for being huge fans of GSLB solutions as some of our customers may already know and you can see from a previous blog : [GSLB – Why Do Global Server Load Balancers Suck?](http://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/gslb-why-do-global-server-load-balancers-suck)
Have you ever looked at the plan for installing a medical imaging system and felt like screaming? I've seen some pretty scary looking network diagrams, sometimes this is because a lot of the kit is running on old standards, but very expensive to replace (think MRI scanners). One of the
Dealing with clients coming from the same subnet as the real servers when using Tproxy can be a pain. It creates an issue because once Haproxy is running transparently, it will allow the real server to see the client IP so the real server will reply directly back to the
Occasionally we get asked questions about supporting multiple default gateways. Customers may have our appliance in two networks, each with it’s own gateway to the internet. Alternatively it may just be a big complex network with multiple routing paths and stateful devices which are fussy about seeing the whole
Having recovered from the recent Heartbleed vulnerabilities we now have another headline grabbing vulnerability to keep us all busy. First let me say that our product should be perfectly safe and secure unless you've already shared your passwords or forgotten to run "lbsecure". You would actually need to