What are load balancers?
You can load balance traffic among your servers to help improve uptime and easily scale your applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to your traffic flows.
IBM Cloud® Application Load Balancer for VPC
Load balancer on classic offerings
Load balancer features
Flexible features and pricing
Choose the load balancing features and pricing models best suited for your unique needs and workloads.
SSL offloading
Terminate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic and establish plain-text communication to reduce the load on back-end application servers.
Hassle-free deployment
Easily manage your configuration using the graphical interface or API. Get shared and dedicated load balancing options with flexible pricing.
Load balancer benefits
Quickly detect server failures
Routinely monitor your server health to help avoid sending traffic to a down server.
Offload SSL handshake
SSL offload allows servers to spend their cycles on real application processing.
Intelligent traffic distribution
Rely on techniques such as round-robin, weighted round-robin and least connections to balance traffic.
Pricing and documentation
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