Tag: Load Balancing

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

Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies confirmed

Well it looks like Microsoft have indeed silently dropped support for mstshash cookies for load balancing as suspected in my last post. As detailed in the last post we had a call open with Microsoft and have just received the following response that confirms our suspicions that they have in fact dropped support for mstshash silently in favour of their Session Directory/Broker solutions.

Microsoft drops support for mstshash cookies?

Recently we have seen quite a few customer issues where using RDP cookies (mstshash cookies see – http://www.snakelegs.org for more details) seems to result in multiple active sessions over several RDP servers as shown below (Notice the user Rob on both TS Servers). So we decided to investigate this and find out why……..

Exchange 2013 – Microsoft finally have an email solution designed for high availability and load balancing

OK, So maybe my blog title is a little harsh. The Microsoft Exchange products have been pretty scaleable since Exchange 2007. Exchange 2010 had some vast improvements and you could tell that the Microsoft engineers had put a lot of effort into trying to ease the painful mess that was load balancing an Exchange 2007 cluster