Overview
What are IBM Cloud® load balancers?
With IBM Cloud load balancers, you can load balance traffic among your servers to help improve uptime. You can also easily scale your applications by adding or removing servers, with minimal disruption to your traffic flows. IBM Cloud offers both classic and VPC load balancers.
How load balancers are used
Classic load balancers
Classic load balancers
IBM Cloud offers several options of load balancers for traditional public cloud environments, including IBM Cloud Load Balancer and Citrix NetScaler appliances.
Benefits
Why IBM Cloud load balancers
Quickly detect server failures
Monitor server health to help avoid sending traffic to down servers.
Offload SSL handshake
Allow servers to spend their cycles on real application processing.
Intelligent traffic distribution
Balance traffic with round robin, weighted round robin, and least connections.
Features
IBM Cloud load balancer features
Flexible features and pricing
Choose the features and pricing best suited for your needs.
SSL offloading
Reduce the load on back-end application servers.
Hassle-free deployment
Manage your configuration with the graphical interface or API.
Other IBM Cloud networking products
Network security
Protect your network with firewalls and security groups to better secure both servers and users.
Gateway appliances
Manage physical and virtual networks with network appliances including routers, firewalls and more.
IBM Content Delivery Network
Avoid network traffic jams and decrease latency by keeping data closer to users.
Next steps
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