Category: Loadbalancer.org

Why did my Loadbancer just fail the PCI compliance test?

Let me first say that I’m not really a fan of PCI scanners. It’s not so much that I’m anti security scanners but rather that scanning for vulnerabilities based on only the version number a package returns seems rather simplistic to me. However, what should I do if my PCI scanner reports that the Apache version running the WebUI on my appliance is too old?

SSL Offload Testing with HAProxy and Stunnel

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested we at loadbalancer.org wish to change that. What is SSL offloading/SSL Termination? SSL offloading is the process of moving SSL traffic decryption and encryption away from your web servers onto a centralised device, be it a loadbalancer or specific SSL offloading hardware

3 Ways To Send HAProxy Health Check Email Alerts

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).

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

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