29 Oct
Thanks again to those that took the load balancing survey. I got a
tremendous number of responses, and there are a number of surprising
things that I’ve learned through it that I’d like to share.
First of all, I was surprised that the vast majority of respondents said
they purchased their hardware new (78%). If you [...]
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23 Oct
New section, new idea for lbdigest. It’s called (creatively) “Ask Tony”. Email me a question, and I’ll answer it on this blog. If you’ve got a question relating to load balancing, SSL acceleration, traffic management, etc., I’ll do my best to answer it, and hopefully the answer will help others as well.
Send an email to [...]
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22 Oct
In an effort to better understand how the load balancing has evolved over the years, I’ve put together a quick survey for load balancer/traffic management/application delivery administrators.
Take the survey
It’s a quick survey, just 3 pages, and can be done in less than 5 minutes. The survey is anonymous, and no vendor will contact you [...]
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17 Oct
So what do underwear, hard drives, and networking gear (specifically, networking gear that operates above Layer 3) have in common?
They are three things I don’t buy used. Underwear is obvious. With hard drives, they’re the component in a PC that is almost guaranteed to fail before any other component involved in a [...]
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