Tag: loadbalancer.org

Loadbalancer.org releases patch for the Openssl heartbleed vulnerability CVE-2014-0160

  Vulnerability Description The bug is in OpenSSL’s implementation of the TLS/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520). When it is exploited it leads to the leak of memory contents from the server to the client and from the client to the server. For more details, please refer to: http://heartbleed.com/   1) Updating the Hardware & Virtual Appliance   Appliance Software Versions Affected : v7.5, v7.5.1, v7.5.2, v7.5.3, v7.5.4   Hotfix Details : The hotfix includes a recompiled version of OpenSSL with the compile option “-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS” which mitigates the vulnerability

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?

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).

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