To follow up to Aarons blog on HAProxy emails alerts using logwatch I was looking into different ways to achieve the same results. Now the ideal way to monitor the health of the real servers is to to have a dedicated monitoring system in place such as Nagios( It even has a HAProxy plugin )
10 reasons to choose Loadbalancer.org…
Anyone who knows Loadbalancer.org knows we’re a truly unique company, free from corporate constraints and wholly focused on more than just customer service excellence. Our main problem is communicating this message to the unfortunate few who are unaware of exactly what it is that makes Loadbalancer.org so special. So here I am going to attempt to convey the unparalleled Loadbalancer.org ideology by outlining 10 reasons why we really are such a unique company… 1) Excellent, personalized, technical support Our direct sales and support model means that there’s no need for customers to go through resellers or other outsourced agents (like many of our competitors).
Load balancing UDP on EC2
I had been tasked with finding a way to load balance UDP on AWS. Normally we would use ipvsadm in at layer 4 DR but because of the limitations in ec2 this is not possible so another method was needed
Open Source Windows service for reporting server load back to HAProxy (load balancer feedback agent).
In general when you are load balancing a cluster you can evenly spread the connections through the cluster and you get pretty consistent and even load balancing. However with some applications such as RDS ( Microsoft Terminal Servers ), you can get very high load from just a few users doing heavy work. The solution to this is to use some kind of server load feedback agent
A10 Thunder™ Series Product Video
Next-generation Application Delivery Controllers: A10 Thunder™ Unified Application Service Gateways (UASGs) are the next evolution in Application Networking …
Some small changes to default settings make achieving high availability easier…..
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 of the primary high-availability objective
XRoads Networks Introduces WEBaXcel™ With Advanced Web Filtering and Link Bonding Technologies
IRVINE, CA–(Marketwired – May 8, 2013) – XRoads Networks, a leading provider of unified bandwidth management platforms, today announced a unique innovation to its EdgeXOS product line. The WEBaXcel network appliance is the only solution on the market that incorporates XRoads Networks’ unique broadband bonding technology with an enterprise class, cloud-enabled web filtering solution from Webroot, a leader in cloud-based security intelligence solutions. The WEBaXcel’s bandwidth bonding capability actually combines the speed of multiple ISP connections in order to accelerate web download speeds and improve overall network performance and reliability
What do you mean my pipe is saturated?
Some of the most common questions we get at Loadbalancer.org are performance related.
A10 Thunder
Teaser video for APAC / JP customer conference.
Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies confirmed
Well it looks like Microsoft have indeed silently dropped support for mstshash cookies for load balancing as suspected in my last post. As detailed in the last post we had a call open with Microsoft and have just received the following response that confirms our suspicions that they have in fact dropped support for mstshash silently in favour of their Session Directory/Broker solutions.