Load balancing, simplified
Scale your applications and improve availability, security, and performance across your infrastructure in a few clicks.
Scale your application seamlessly
DigitalOcean's Load Balancers ensure traffic is distributed across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability and help you deliver exceptional experiences to your customers.
Scale with better availability and performance
Load Balancers are constantly monitored for availability and anomalies—any issues discovered are corrected automatically so your app always runs smoothly.
Let's Encrypt and HTTP/3 support
Automatically provision and renew SSL certificates free of charge through Let's Encrypt, and provide better performance for your users with HTTP/3.
Simple to set up
Provisions in seconds and is easily managed through the Control Panel or API.
Proxy Protocol support
Automatically pass a client's IP address and port through to your Droplets.
Compatible with DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Seamlessly add Load Balancers to your DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster.
Scale to your needs
Get more flexibility—resize your Load Balancer when you need to and scale your apps with ease.
Now Available for Early Access (EA): Internal Load Balancer
With DigitalOcean's Internal Load Balancer, you can effortlessly scale your private workloads within a VPC without public internet exposure.
Simple to deploy and manage
Load Balancers are a highly available, fully-managed service that work right out of the box and can be deployed as fast as a Droplet. Load Balancers distribute incoming traffic across your infrastructure to increase your application's availability, performance, and reliability at scale so you can be sure your Droplet runs smoothly at all times.
Deploy a Load Balancer for as little as $12 per month
Load Balancers can be sized to suit your needs, and each node only costs $12 per month. Equipped with integrated Let's Encrypt SSL, provisioning, renewal, and support for HTTP/3, Load Balancers are incredibly easy to use and give your users exceptional performance.
Pricing
A must-have for production apps, Load Balancers spread traffic across your compute resources to improve availability, performance, and scalability.
Regional pricing starts at $12 per month
Start with one node and add up to 100 of them, adding or removing nodes as you go.
Try Load Balancers out now!
Get startedEach node increases Load Balancer capacity by:
+10,000
requests per second
+10,000
simultaneous connections
+250
SSL connections per second
Programmatically control your Load Balancers
Our API enables you to manage Load Balancers in a simple, programmatic way.
## Create Load Balancer
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{ "name": "lb-name", "region": "nyc3", "droplet_ids": [<DROPLET_ID1>], "forwarding_rules": [{ "entry_protocol": "http", "entry_port": 80, "target_protocol": "http", "target_port": 80 }] }' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/load_balancers"
## Add another droplet
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{ "droplet_ids": [<DROPLET_ID2>] }' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/load_balancers/<LB_UUID>/droplets"Create highly available setups with Load Balancers
Take any number of actions—including creating a new Load Balancer and adding Droplets to them through the API (Go and Ruby wrappers coming soon). Includes OAuth support.
Do more with Load Balancers
Find out more about Load Balancers and creating highly available infrastructure with the help of step-by-step tutorials.
Getting started
An Introduction to DigitalOcean Load Balancers
Load Balancer Quickstart
How To Create Your First DigitalOcean Load Balancer
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