Ask Tony
Got a question about load balancing? Considering a few vendors and want some input? Just shoot me an email:tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
Archives
- August 2010
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
Categories
- Ask Tony
- Buyer's Guide
- Editorial
- Feature Articles
- From The Mailing list
- In the Wild
- Industry News
- lbwiki updates
- Link Load Balancing
- Load Balancing 101
- Newcomer Series
- Notes from the publisher
- Performance
- Pontification
- Quick Guide
- Recycled
- Reviews
- Tech Notes
- Troubleshooting
- Uncategorized
- vendor annoucements
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Justin Pirie on What Is The Cloud? The Cloud Is Shit I Don’t Care About
- The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem « Von'Victor Valentino Rosenchild – Blog on Mega Proxy Not So Mega, Akshually
- Load Balancing Digest » Blog Archive » KEMP Releases LoadMaster 5.0 Firmware on Best of Both Worlds: Selective Source-NAT
- Broccoli on Holy Crap, There’s A Lot Of Vendors
- stine on Tales of Load Balancing Horror
Archive for November, 2007
-
Holy Crap, There’s A Lot Of Vendors
Posted on November 29, 2007 | 9 CommentsI put together a list of all of the active load balancing vendors that I’m aware of, and dayom, there’s a lot. A10 Networks Array Networks (corrected) Barracuda Networks BalanceNG CAI Networks Web Mux Celestix Cisco, makers of LocalDirector, Distributed Director, CSS, CSM, ACE load... -
What Application Developers Need To Know About Load Balancers
Posted on November 28, 2007 | 3 CommentsYou’re an application developer. You work in a world of untyped variables, debugging, and hitting reload over, and over, and over, and over again, all in the name of churning out a good web app. You can spot a SQL syntax error from the corner... -
PHP and Load Balancers
Posted on November 27, 2007 | No CommentsI got this email today from Don Keller in New Orleans regarding PHP interacting with a load balancer: I read somewhere that the load balancer you run must support sessions, otherwise you must use cookies.” This is a common type of question that people who... -
Coming Talent Crisis?
Posted on November 20, 2007 | 1 CommentSometimes, I wonder if there’s a talent crisis coming. Networking and security devices are no longer simply Layer 2 through 4. It used to be that you could throw up a few Cisco PIX rules and a Layer 4 load balancer and you’d have both... -
How To Choose A Load Balancer
Posted on November 16, 2007 | 4 CommentsI get a lot of questions on what’s the best load balancer to choose. There are currently over 20 vendors too choose from, so buyers can experience a little bit of over-choice shutdown. So, here’s a few tips to help whittle down the vendors. The... -
Support Questions
Posted on November 15, 2007 | 1 CommentI recently received an email from Steve in the UK, and he had this question: As we are in the UK, Barracuda has an office here, Kemp only 1 distributor and Coyote with almost nothing. However, if support is light it maybe worth asking my... -
Survey Closed
Posted on November 5, 2007 | No CommentsI’ve closed the load balancing survey. I’ve received over 100 responses, which is a fantastic response from this niche-ian market. I’ll be munging through the final responses in the next few days. Here’s another detail: Quite a few responded that the load balancer getting blamed... -
Confessions of a Former Alteon CEO
Posted on November 2, 2007 | No CommentsJust saw this article in Fortune: Confessions of a CEO. It’s an account of Dominic Orr, the CEO of Alteon networks (sold to Nortel for $8 Billion), and pulls back the curtain on the private life of a dot-com boom executive. It’s a fascinating read,...