Load balancers

Spread the load, drop the single point of failure.

Put a managed load balancer in front of your servers and requests only reach healthy targets. Terminate TLS in one place and scale out by adding servers.

  • From $16.71 / month
  • TCP, HTTP and HTTPS
  • TLS termination
  • Active health checks
Targets on the largest plan
150
TLS certificates on the largest plan
50
Traffic included on every plan
20 TB
Algorithms: round robin and least connections
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Load Balancers

Pick a capacity

Choose a location

Same price in both locations. Your choice is added to the quote request.

LB Small

$16.71/ month

Services
5
Targets
25
TLS certificates
10
Traffic
20 TB
Get started

LB Large

$95.87/ month

Services
30
Targets
150
TLS certificates
50
Traffic
20 TB
Get started

Prices in USD, billed monthly unless stated otherwise. Need a different size? Ask for a custom configuration.

What you get

Built in, not bolted on.

Any TCP, plus HTTP/2

Balance raw TCP or HTTP and HTTPS traffic. HTTP/2 is used by default whenever the client supports it.

TLS offload or passthrough

Decrypt TLS on the load balancer to free CPU on your servers, or pass encrypted traffic straight through to them.

Active and passive checks

Configurable health checks probe every target, and each request is watched as well, so traffic only goes to servers that respond.

Private network entry

Make the load balancer your only public entry point and keep the servers behind it on a private network.

Real client IPs

The PROXY protocol carries connection details such as the client IP address through to your application.

Cloud and dedicated targets

Mix cloud servers and dedicated servers behind one load balancer, and change targets whenever you need to.

Use cases

What teams run on it.

  • 01

    Horizontal scaling

    Run several identical app servers and add more as traffic grows, without touching DNS.

  • 02

    Zero-downtime releases

    Take servers out of rotation one at a time for updates while the rest keep serving users.

  • 03

    Kubernetes services

    Expose cluster services through a managed load balancer that the Kubernetes cloud controller manager creates and configures.

  • 04

    A single front door

    Terminate TLS in one place and keep databases and app servers off the public internet.

How it works

Three steps to running.

  1. 01

    Create

    Pick a plan and a region: Istanbul or Nuremberg.

  2. 02

    Configure

    Add a service for each port you listen on, attach targets, and set health checks and certificates.

  3. 03

    Point DNS

    Send your domain to the load balancer IP address and traffic starts flowing to healthy targets.

Questions

Load Balancers, answered.

Which balancing algorithms are available?

Round robin and least connections. Round robin spreads requests evenly; least connections suits requests that vary a lot in length.

What are services and targets?

A service is a listening port and protocol, such as HTTPS on port 443. A target is a server that receives the traffic. Each plan sets how many of each you can define.

Can dedicated servers be targets?

Yes. Cloud servers and dedicated servers can sit behind the same load balancer.

Which TLS certificates can I use?

Any valid SSL/TLS certificate. Add it to the load balancer and it handles the TLS handshake for your HTTPS services.

Does it work with Kubernetes?

Yes. A cloud controller manager for Kubernetes provisions and configures load balancers from your Service objects.

Will my servers see the visitor IP address?

Yes, if you enable the PROXY protocol. It passes the original client connection details to your servers.

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Not sure which size fits?

Tell us what you want to run. An engineer suggests a configuration and sends you a written price.