hosang I.T. | LoadBalancers | Activity https://hosangit.com/groups/loadbalancers/ Activity feed for the group, LoadBalancers. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:01:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 45cf959153b281b53c8559c810cd5e10 master started the topic Load Balancer vs Reverse Proxy in the forum LoadBalancers https://hosangit.com/groups/loadbalancers/forum/topic/load-balancer-vs-reverse-proxy/ Wed, 07 May 2025 18:02:58 -0400  

Load balancers
vs
Reverse proxies

Concerned with distributing traffic.

Prevents bottlenecks, maximize throughput, and optimizes resource consumption

Also distributes traffic but primarily concerned with limiting and safeguarding server access

Has addd features such as SSL termination and caching

]]> 0 6447ba1c3270566b199895511d24bb95 master started the topic LB Methods in the forum LoadBalancers https://hosangit.com/groups/loadbalancers/forum/topic/lb-methods/ Wed, 07 May 2025 01:01:44 -0400 Load balancing distributes network traffic or workloads across multiple servers to prevent overload on any single server. These 6 algorithms define how that distribution happens:

🔷 Round Robin (RR)
▪️ Cycles through servers sequentially.
▪️ Best for non-session-persistent workloads.
▪️ Simple but assumes equal server capacity, which can cause…Read more

]]> 0 d4dc4538809575f32ff2d67854f59e45 admin started the topic ssl handshake failure in the forum BIG-IP LTM https://hosangit.com/topic/ssl-handshake-failure/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:36:07 -0400 We are seeing lot of SSL handshake failures in our logs.

err bigd[6396]: 01060111:3: Open SSL error - error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure.

In order to identify which backend pool member is causing the issue, we need to turn on debug.

Log in to the BIG-IP command line.
To enable debug logging for the bigd…Read more

]]> 0 f9ab0e5cab71b43b3a569ad6b342afb7 cowboy started the topic Creating an NGINX Loadbalancer in the forum NGINX https://hosangit.com/topic/creating-an-nginx-loadbalancer/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:56:10 -0400 Here is my notes on creating an NGINX loadbalancer
Create the following Virtuals that have working DNS
loadbalancer (centos7 or 8)
10.6.0.136
configure ssh key
ssh root@10.6.0.136
Install EPEL-RELEASE which has NGINX in its catalog
[scode]yum install epel-release -y[/scode]

Now install NGINX
[scode]yum install nginx -y[/scode]

Verify…Read more

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