When you have users depending on Windows Terminal Services for their main desktop, it’s a good idea to have more than one Terminal Server. RDP, however, is not an easy protocol to load balance; sessions are long-lived and need to be persistent to a particular server, and users may connect from different source addresses during one session.

The current development version of HAProxy has made an important step forward in making this possible. Thanks to work by Exceliance, it now supports RDP Cookies, offering a solution to the persistence problem.

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Having just survived yet another boring trade show (IPExpo 2009) we have made a morale boosting decision to never do one again! (Well we might do Vegas for a laugh but thats a different story). I’m sure the other vendors out there dread the trade shows as well; and in the past they have almost been a compulsory part of being an IT vendor. However if you look at the costs of getting a stand and hotel and travel and lots of entrainment expenses it really doesn’t stack up. We spent £20,000+ last year on trade shows with little to show for it but hang overs and sore feet. £20,000 is an awful lot of Google Ads! almost 3 times our current adwords budget….. Anyway just to annoy the staff a description of Loadbalancer.org’s show follows: (more…)

This load balancing post is a little bit cheeky.. as its a bit of an experiment with catching Google’s eye on the net, the Loadbalancer.org site does pretty well for the search term “Load Balancer”… but sucks big time for the second most popular term “Load Balancing”… Now I noticed that Loadbalancing.net gets a first search page result with no virtually zero relevant content so the domain name must help a lot! (more…)