Cloudflare Load Balancing
Distribute traffic with DNS-based load balancing and active health checks against your origin servers.
Overview
Cloudflare Load Balancing improves performance and availability by routing visitors to the nearest and healthiest servers. It uses DNS-based load balancing and active health checks to ensure that traffic is only sent to responsive origin servers.
✨ Key Features
- Global and local load balancing
- DNS-based load balancing
- Active health checks
- Geo-routing
- Failover
- Session affinity
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Massive global network
- Integrated security and performance services
Unique Value: Improve application performance and resilience with a global, cloud-based load balancer that leverages Cloudflare's massive network.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- Distributing traffic across geographically distributed data centers.
🏆 Alternatives
Offers a more comprehensive suite of integrated performance and security services compared to standalone load balancer providers.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
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