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Adopting a value-based healthcare (VBHC) approach: load balancing's pivotal role Himakshi Goswami
Value-based care is the new approach to modern healthcare – and interoperability is key to the model's successful adoption.

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Black Friday: how load balancers power the world’s biggest eCommerce event Tom Hopkins
Find out how load balancers help deliver the world's biggest online shopping weekend.

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30 Oct 2020
Load balancing EHR for healthier healthcare IT applications Himakshi Goswami
Optimizing Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) means maximizing availability, performance and security - and that's where load balancers come in.

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31 Jul 2020
How load balancers optimize PACS performance in radiology Himakshi Goswami
Understand the role of load balancing in PACS and how it ultimately helps deliver better patient care.

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17 Jul 2020
Load balancing PaperCut Version 20 Imannuel Graham
PaperCut v20 has made great strides with high availability and failover capabilities - find out how to get the most out of your PaperCut print environment.

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13 May 2020
How load balancing helps to store and protect petabytes of data Himakshi Goswami
There's a reason we call ourself the experts in the storage industry. Read our blog to know how Loadbalancer.org's expertise with Cloudian HyperStore helped the University of Leicester store and protect massive amount of sensitive research data .

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19 Aug 2019
What are the best load balancing methods and algorithms? Malcolm Turnbull
Learn more about the the different load balancing methods, techniques and algorithms, and the pros and cons of each.

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31 Jan 2019
What is a load balancer? Annu Sroa
We explain the concept of load balancing, what it's for - and what a load balancer actually does.

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15 Jan 2019
Printing without pain: How to scale print environments and avoid downtime Imannuel Graham
Print environments often bring together multiple technologies and applications, which can present challenges. There’s the issue of planned downtime: end-users may need to make manual changes to their network when print services fail, taking servers out of production for maintenance or updates...

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20 Dec 2018
15 years later, we still love DSR Andrew Howe
Some relationships fizzle out over time. You know how it goes - you change, you start fighting, you grow apart. But fifteen years on, Loadbalancer.org’s love affair with Layer 4 DR mode is

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3 Dec 2018
RSNA 2018: Future tech and present problems Jake Borman
Last month we made our annual visit to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago. It's the place to be if you're looking to experience cutting-edge medical imaging tech, meet with vendors,

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28 Nov 2018
Can you load balance multiple applications at the same time? Oliver Warren
We seem to get this question quite frequently. So instead of giving the answer to everyone whenever we're asked, we thought it'd be best to write a blog about it. The short answer is yes.

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25 Oct 2018
The need for load balancing in medical imaging PACSman - Michael Cannavo
Medical information and imaging systems are expected to operate like a luxury automobile. You get in, turn the key, it starts and takes you to where you want to go. It’s not about what’

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3 Jul 2018
Load balancing your load balancers for endless scalability Aaron West
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

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27 Apr 2018
How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy Thorsten Wetzig
What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client. Using the Cloudflare

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21 Mar 2018
Highly Available NFS based Kerberos KDC aka. Ganesha + GlusterFS + HAProxy. Tom Kacperski
Load balancing NFS is a real pain — especially when it comes to the locked mounts issue. In this blog I'll explain how to create a highly available NFS server for Kerberos.

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19 Dec 2017
I've finally found a decent reason to use GSLB! Aaron West
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...!

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14 Nov 2017
Loadbalancer.org helps mymovies deliver a secure, reliable video content service to worldwide media organizations Annu Sroa
Many of the world's leading media and entertainment businesses rely on mymovies to produce and deliver high-quality video content to enhance their film, TV and broadcast products and services. For over five years, mymovies has

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21 Sep 2017
Hosting across multiple locations or data centres? What are my options? I'm really confused... Aaron West
We are going to discuss the options available to us when hosting applications across multiple sites or even data centres.

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5 Dec 2016
GSLB — Why Global Server Load Balancers don’t always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Part 2 Aaron West
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.

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15 Nov 2016
GSLB – Why Global Server Load Balancers don't always suck? (Polaris-GSLB) Aaron West
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)

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1 Jul 2016
Seamless load balancer recovery - as easy as 1, 2, 3 Rob Cooper
So, you've configured two Loadbalancer.org appliances as a clustered pair for high availability, the pair has been working fine but then one day you receive an email alert that one of the pair has

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29 May 2015
Backups, Backups, Backups! Dave Saunders
Every system administrator, infrastructure manager and experienced user knows the importance of having current backups available... just in case!  The security of knowing you have an up-to-date version of the configuration can be worth it's

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13 Feb 2014
Load balancing RSA SecurID Jake Borman
When the friendly folk down at RSA contacted me requesting a test load balancer for a new project the dollar signs in my eyes were glowing for all to see. RSA SecurID is widely accepted

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12 Feb 2014
Cluster recovery made easier Rob Cooper
Loadbalancer.org has always given high-availability the utmost priority in its product design. However prior to v7.6, cluster recovery (i.e. re-synchronized master & slave appliances after a cluster failure) without downtime was a

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17 May 2013
Some small changes to default settings make achieving high availability easier... Malcolm Turnbull
Loadbalancer.org has always been about high-availability, that is the fundamental reason for our products existence. Performance has always been a nice side effect while maintainability of your application cluster is generally a key sub-set

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12 Nov 2012
Setting up HAProxy with Transparent Mode on Centos 6.x Scott McKeown
Transparent mode with HAProxy allows you to see the IP Address of the clients computer while still having a high availability service using HAProxy. Ps. If you are only using HTTP, a much easier alternative

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