I've just seen an article on The Register about a new exploit in the wild. Microsoft IIS FTP service is vulnerable to a new exploit, see: Microsoft Security Advisory (975191). Fortunately you can quickly protect your FTP server with just a few lines of TrafficScript. Read more...

...Zeus customers protected!

When I got in to the office this morning, I wasn't expecting to read about a new BIND 9 exploit!! So as soon as I'd had my first cup of tea I sat down to put together a little TrafficScript magic to protect our ZXTM customers. Read more...

Many businesses today rely on email to communicate with their customers. It’s a useful tool to keep them up-to-date with current news, events, and offers. So it’s more than a little frustrating when a proportion of those messages end up being flagged as spam and never seen by the intended recipient Read more...

The newest version of Adobe's ColdFusion server features much improved performance and scalability. Among the host of new features, are Ajax enhancements, .Net integration and an Interactive Debugger for the Eclipse IDE (Great minds think alike). ColdFusion 8 has dramatically improved performance over previous versions. Independent tests by Zeus customers deploying ColdFusion have seen ~50% reduction in response times from the CF server, but as with any web application, intelligent Content-Caching is key to achieving the best performance.. Read more...

It would seem that not a day goes by without another social networking site appearing on the interweb. We're all familiar with My Space, Facebook, and Linked-In, but the latest craze sweeping the internet, and the Zeus office, is Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging site, which encourages its members to submit short blogs (no more than 140 characters), answering the simple question "What are you doing?" Read more...

How can you respond immediately to sudden increases in load, even at night, and still sleep soundly in your bed? Automated Dynamic Provisioning of course!

The popularity of Virtual Infrastructures seems to be increasing on a daily basis, and besides the obvious savings in power, cooling, and hardware, a major benefit of the Virtual data center is increased manageability, and dynamic provisioning. Regardless of whether you think of ZXTM as an Application Delivery Controller, or an Application Traffic Manager, its position in the network means that it is perfectly placed to help you take control of your virtual environment. Read more...

In September 2007, Zeus released ZXTM version 4.2. One of the new features in the 4.2 release was 'Forward Proxy Mode', which allowed ZXTM to be used as a forward proxy. A little while after the release, Ben from Zeus' Development Team kindly provided a knowledgehub article giving step by step instructions on how to configure ZXTM as a Web Cache Proxy Server. Ben's post concentrated on proxying HTTP requests, however proxy servers can sometimes be configured to proxy HTTPS requests too. This article will provide a TrafficScript™ example that can be used to proxy those HTTPS requests Read more...

Popular news and blogging sites such as Slashdot and Digg have huge readerships. They are community driven and allow their members to post articles on various topics ranging from hazelnut chocolate bars to global warming. These sites, due to their massive readership, have the power to generate huge spikes in the web traffic to those (un)fortunate enough to get mentioned in their articles. Fortunately ZXTM and TrafficScript™ can help. Read more...

Many customers who run ZXTM in front of a J2EE application server, like JBoss or Tomcat, would like to use the high performance SSL processing of ZXTM but still need their application to know when the connection was secured. The Apache AJP protocol can be used to achieve this. Read more...

The JBoss Application Server is a widely used and very popular J2EE certified platform for deploying enterprise Java applications. The Application server supports all J2EE 1.4 features and includes support for clustering, caching and persistence.

This article will give you an overview of how ZXTM from Zeus Technology can be used to load balance a JBoss application server cluster. Read more...

Microsoft Windows Media Services is a platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content over the Internet or an intranet. This article explains how to configure ZXTM to load-balance traffic to and from a cluster of Windows servers providing Media Services. Read more...