As a follow on to my previous blog, its easier to get Apache to log client IP addresses utilizing X-Forwarded-For headers than it is using IIS. By default, the logs do not record source IP addresses for clients but this is very easy to change using the LogFormat directive in the httpd.conf file as explained
IIS and X-Forwarded-For Header
So, you’re using IIS and you want to track your clients by IP address in your IIS logs. Unfortunately, out of the tin, this is simply not possible
GSLB – Why do Global Server Load Balancers Suck?
OK, Before the flames start let me state the usual caveat, “GSLBs don’t ALWAYS suck, just most of the time”. Here at Loadbalancer.org we have toyed with the idea of selling a GSLB (as most of our competitors do), it wouldn’t take long… to hack a decent PowerDNS interface onto one of our appliances… But every
G-Zip Compression and Loadbalancing
A couple of our customers have asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression in the past we haven’t given it much thought. Then out of the blue a company offered us a card to test with http://www.aha.com/ and some of us in the office welcoming the opportunity to meddle with anything new jumped at
EC2 load balancer appliance rocks, and its FREE… for now anyway.
Update: Sorry but as of Wednesday 6th Oct 2010, the free lifetime license is no longer available! OK, so let me begin by saying that I am both excited and slightly scared by our latest product.
Enabling SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables
Just a brief guide on how to enable SNAT in LVS with iptables. Firstly this is all very bleeding edge and as yet has not made it into the current kernel it should be in 2.6.36 with a new version of iptables released not long after that. But for those of you far to eager
Google killed the IT Trade show…. Part II
OK, So we said we would never do a trade show again….. But how can you give up on the humble trade show before going to the biggest one of all