Load Balancing for High Performance  and  Availability in the Cloud

Load Balancing for High Performance and Availability in the Cloud

Cloudflare
Published by: Research Desk Released: Feb 22, 2021

Slow or unavailable websites, apps, and APIs frustrate visitors, reduce conversions, and degrade SEO. Cloud-based load balancers reduce latency and improve availability by distributing web traffic across your cloud servers based on availability and geographic distance.

Cloudflare Load Balancing is a vendor-agnostic, cloud-based solution that expands on Cloudflare’s DDoS-resilient DNS and global CDN.

  • Sets up in minutes and requires minimal maintenance.
  • Multi-vendor and cross-cloud seamlessly integrate into any cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid environment.
  • Global geolocation-based routing directs user traffic to the closest regional server.
  • Health check monitoring and near real-time failover route visitors away from failures