Enhance Application Performance and Availability
DigitalOcean's Load Balancers offer a simplified solution to scale your applications efficiently while improving availability, security, and performance across your infrastructure. By distributing traffic evenly across your servers, Load Balancers ensure that your applications are always accessible and deliver exceptional experiences to your customers. With constant monitoring for availability and automatic issue resolution, your applications run smoothly without interruptions.
Boost Security with Let's Encrypt and HTTP/3 Support
DigitalOcean Load Balancers provide additional layers of security by offering Let's Encrypt SSL certificate provisioning and renewal at no extra cost. Moreover, supporting HTTP/3 protocol ensures better performance for end-users. These features not only enhance security but also optimize application speed and reliability.
Flexible and Easy to Manage
Setting up a Load Balancer with DigitalOcean is a breeze, taking only seconds to provision and manage either through the user-friendly Control Panel or via the API. The inclusion of Proxy Protocol support allows for the transparent passing of client's IP addresses and ports to your infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication between the user and your application.
Seamless Integration with Kubernetes
For users leveraging DigitalOcean's Kubernetes solution, adding Load Balancers to your cluster seamlessly is now possible, extending the same benefits of improved availability and performance to your Kubernetes-managed applications. Scaling your applications becomes effortless with the ability to resize your Load Balancer as needed and ensure your apps run smoothly at all times.
Internal Load Balancing for Enhanced Privacy
DigitalOcean's Internal Load Balancer is now available for Early Access, allowing you to scale private workloads within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing them to the public internet. This feature is ideal for businesses looking to maintain privacy and security for internal processes while still benefiting from Load Balancing capabilities.
Cost-Effective and Scalable
Pricing for DigitalOcean Load Balancers starts at just $12 per month per node, making it an affordable solution for businesses of all sizes. The ability to add up to 100 nodes and increase capacity in terms of requests per second, simultaneous connections, and SSL connections per second ensures that your application can scale seamlessly as your traffic grows.
Streamline Management with API Integration
DigitalOcean's API allows you to programmatically control and manage your Load Balancers, making it easy to automate tasks such as creating new Load Balancers, adding or removing Droplets, and adjusting configurations as needed. With support for OAuth and upcoming Go and Ruby wrappers, integrating your Load Balancers into your workflow is seamless.
Learn and Implement with Tutorials and Documentation
DigitalOcean offers a range of tutorials and documentation to help you make the most of Load Balancers, whether you are new to the concept or looking to create highly available infrastructures. With step-by-step guides, you can quickly learn how to set up your first Load Balancer, integrate it with your infrastructure, and optimize its performance for your applications.