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NEED MORE INFO ON LOAD BALANCING? LEARN MORE ABOUT IT. WHAT IS LOAD BALANCING?


LOAD BALANCING

MAXIMIZE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY



Overutilized or geographically distant servers add latency and degrade the user
experience. Such mistakes can prove costly, resulting in lost customers, missed
revenue, and reputational damage.

With Load Balancing, you can improve application performance and availability by
steering traffic away from unhealthy origin servers and dynamically distributing
it to the most available and responsive server pools.

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View plans and pricing for Load Balancing.



MANAGE FROM A UNIFIED CONTROL PLANE

Manage global and local traffic in a complex infrastructure environment from one
place — the Cloudflare Dashboard. Intelligently route your traffic based on
geography, latency, and availability.

INCREASE RELIABILITY WITH FAST FAILOVER

Route your visitors away from unhealthy origins and failover instantly with zero
downtime. As soon as an origin or pool goes down, requests proxied through
Cloudflare get instantly re-routed — without waiting for TTLs to expire.

REDUCE YOUR TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

Gain operational agility and reduce capital expenditure by replacing on-premise
load balancing hardware with an enterprise-grade, cloud-based load balancing
solution — all delivered and billed as a service.


CONNECT TO THE GLOBAL NETWORK



Load Balancing runs at each of our data centers across 310 cities worldwide and
is powered by our DDoS-resilient DNS — the fastest Authoritative DNS in the
world. Our global Anycast network is 15x bigger than the largest DDoS attack
ever recorded and ensures that traffic continues to get routed even under
stress. We support load balancing for both proxied and non- proxied traffic.




"The combination of Load Balancing’s geolocation steering and Cloudflare’s
caching makes sure customers are getting the fastest load times possible."

Nigel Hepworth

Managing Director




LOAD BALANCING PRICING

FREE, PRO, AND BUSINESS PLAN PRICING:

Base Fee:

 * Up to 2 origin servers: $5 per month
 * Additional origins, up to 20: $5 per month per origin

Usage-based Fees:

 * First 500k DNS requests are free
 * $0.50 per every 500k DNS requests after

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ENTERPRISE PLAN PRICING:

Base Fee:

 * Custom Pricing

Usage-based Fees:

 * Custom Pricing
 * Negotiated reduced rate lower than $0.50

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KEY FEATURES

Global and local load balancing

Active origin monitoring

Fastest managed DNS

Support for HTTPS and TCP traffic

Detailed traffic analytics

Fast failover with zero downtime

Dynamic steering

Real-Time latency maps

DDoS protection included

Geo-based steering

Configurable origin weights

Session affinity

Health status notifications via email and REST API

Integration with Argo Smart Routing and Spectrum

No DNS propagation delays (proxied traffic)



THE CLOUDFLARE ADVANTAGE





ACTIVE HEALTH MONITORING



Actively monitor the health of your pools to detect outages and eliminate
potential downtime. Classification of a pool as unhealthy can be based on an
extensive set of user-configurable parameters. Health checks can be conducted as
often as every 10 seconds through periodic HTTP/HTTPS requests, with reports
delivered via email notifications or REST API.




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DETAILED TRAFFIC ANALYTICS



Get a granular view of your traffic — identify which origins and pools are being
selected for your traffic and why, so you can gather insights to optimize your
infrastructure. See visualizations of your traffic demands on load balancers,
pools, and origins over variable time ranges.




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REAL-TIME LATENCY MAPS



Create real-time maps to analyze the responsiveness of all your origins around
the world, no matter where they are hosted — on-prem, in the cloud, or in a
hybrid environment. Identify the regions where requests are underperforming, so
you can timely investigate the cause of failure.




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MULTI-CLOUD SUPPORT



Cloudflare Load Balancing fits seamlessly into a multi-cloud environment,
enabling you to avoid costly vendor lock-ins. Using a vendor-agnostic load
balancer increases the fault tolerance of your architecture by safeguarding your
applications from disruptions caused by any single provider. Upon detecting an
outage or connectivity issues with any cloud provider, Cloudflare Load Balancing
automatically routes your traffic to healthy servers.




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SESSION AFFINITY



Maintain session affinity by binding a user's session to a specific origin,
ensuring that all requests during the session are sent to the same origin. This
helps maintain critical session information and enables a seamless,
uninterrupted user experience.




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EASY CONFIGURATION



We make configuring and managing load balancing simple. You can set up a
fully-functioning load balancing infrastructure within minutes using the
Cloudflare Dashboard or REST API. No additional hardware or software required.
You also get the flexibility of adding or removing origins to load balancers as
your traffic scales.




Cloudflare's Load Balancing Analytics gives our team a granular lens into where
our traffic is going, across multiple origin servers and geographic locations.
This allows us to look at load and latency trends over time, making sure there
are no single areas of the system that may act as a bottleneck.

Bobby Samanian

Director, System Operations




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