In the wake of all the recent vulnerabilities we have been working hard to make sure that we give the correct information to our customers. So we decided to setup our latest version of STunnel on our support server (https://support.loadbalancer.org) and test our Cipher Lists with the Qualys SSL Labs site (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest)
Another year, another IP Expo show
We’re dusting ourselves off after exhibiting at IPExpo 2014. A huge thank you to everyone who visited our stand during the two day event. There were some productive discussions, light-hearted fun, and we even talked about load balancing!!! We love the opportunity to get some face-to-face time and felt the show was so good we’ve already booked up for IPExpo 2015
Shell-shocked by shell shock? I give you “CMD Caret” ^&
There seems to have been so much hype over the recent bash bug, shell shock! And there were all the people in the Microsoft world thinking YES we are so cool we are NOT affected by it! Yea right I knew it, there had to be something much the same as the bash bug available in CMD.exe It affects the Windows CMD.exe Shell and I will provide a working example of how it can be exploited. It does show the whole hype of the bash bug bearing in mind you need access to the machines shell in the first place
Windows NLB (WNLB) and its disadvantages
Whilst Windows Network Load Balancing (WNLB) has been constantly improved in each version of Windows since it’s introduction in Windows 2000, it still has a fairly extensive list of disadvantages when compared to a hardware or virtual based loadbalancer.
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 )
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